Richard Humphries, assistant director of policy at The King's Fund The idea of a billion pounds coming out of social care budgets this year is chilling, given how patchy care quality already is.
If you want to carry on reading and you don't speak French, translations of all but the most famous parts of the series are patchy and often out of print.
He says access to MBCT throughout the NHS is patchy and "effectively a postcode lottery".
Yes, the owners are slightly eccentric and the service is patchy.
Stosur's results have been patchy in the lead-up events, losing all three matches at the Hopman Cup before steadying to scrape her way through to a semi-final in Hobart.
So far, however, the evidence is patchy... Earlier this month came data showing the first rise in house prices in 17 months.
Overall few staff were around, information was patchy at best and no one seemed in overall control.
A long-standing campaign, Norwich in 90, to upgrade the region's patchy rail infrastructure and cut journey times has finally won the government's support.
Voting in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where separatists have proclaimed breakaway independent republics after a pair of hastily organised referendums earlier this month, is likely to be patchy at best, with separatists vowing to disrupt the vote.
Many of the problems had already been reported - not enough desert combats or boots, SA80 rifles jamming, Challenger tanks running out of air filters and the welfare package being patchy.
There has been wide concern that thousands of lives are being lost because treatment is patchy.
