When the chancellor wades in with phrases like "profoundly concerned" and "damaging … to the UK's reputation for regulatory stability and competence", senior heads are on the block.
How can senior clinicians develop competence in teaching integration of good quality research evidence into clinical practice?
The F.S.A. is now seeking to add 100 people to the 600 employees in its supervisory group, whose responsibilities include testing the competence of senior managers.
The agency said it will also pay greater attention to the liquidity of high-impact retail companies, and be more rigorous in assessing the competence of senior management.
Each cabinet minister will be asked to identify the "opportunities" that could stem from the UK's departure from the EU in their own particular field of competence, a senior government source told the newspaper.
"I think the BBC, from the way that they handled this appalling business, have called into question not just the competence of senior executives or the chairman of the trust [Lord Patten] but they've called into question the entire governance of the BBC," Isaacs told The Media Show on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday.
The charges include: being more likely to investigate ethnic minority lawyers than white lawyers, judging ethnic minority lawyers as guilty before investigations begin because of racist stereotypes, and paying lip service to equality while lacking both the drive and the competence at senior levels of the organisation to deliver real reform.
Over five years into the making of the Senate report, and virtually on the eve of its release, I and 14 other former senior CIA officials whose competence and integrity it purports to judge were at last to be given a belated, ten-day period in which to read it.
However, these opportunities were reduced where ward teams were incomplete and depended on the willingness and clinical competence of senior staff in their teams.
Others can include on the job training whilst being observed by a senior and documentation of competence in a particular area.
