Health

  • Public Finance
    9 Nov 06
    Too many people with mental health problems are languishing in prison, parliamentarians said this week.
  • Public Finance
    9 Nov 06
    Wales was always bound to go its own distinctive way on the issue of public service reform. Now, as the Welsh Assembly Government prepares to respond to his review, Sir Jeremy Beecham explains why
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    The chief medical officer has complained about ideological badgering of his department by the Cabinet Office's Better Regulation Taskforce.
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    Reforms designed to split the NHS into competing provider and purchaser organisations do not adequately address the needs of the 17 million people with long-term conditions, participants in last week...
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    Government figures on compulsory redundancies in the NHS do not tell the full story, health unions have warned.
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    More than a quarter of local authority children's social services are significantly underperforming, inspectors from Ofsted have found.
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    For years, the NHS has been living off the fat of the land. But now, lean times are almost upon it, and managers need to look for far greater efficiency savings, says Noel Plumridge
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    Despite a doubling of spending on the NHS, the public perception is one of a cash-strapped organisation in crisis. Richard Brooks explains how what should be a good news story for the government has...
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    A surge in new medical treatments combined with an ageing population mean the demands on the NHS are set to rise just as it faces a financial squeeze. A co-payments system, with built-in protection...
  • Public Finance
    2 Nov 06
    In many ways, the NHS has never had it so good. But that's not what the public thinks. Public Finance and Deloitte convened a round table of health service policy makers and practitioners to explore...
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    Social services departments face an unrealistic funding settlement in next year's Comprehensive Spending Review because the Treasury is basing its calculations on inaccurate and inappropriate data,...
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    The Treasury will shortly publish strategies for policy and growth that will set it on a collision course with Prime Minister Tony Blair's Whitehall-wide reviews announced last week.
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    'The LGA's 'root and branch' review of its work needs to urge the association away from its comfort zone in the Whitehall village, argue George Jones and John Stewart. Instead it should prioritise...
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    Europe's head of audit has initiated urgent discussions with Brussels' financial watchdog over the accounting system used for the European Union, after experts refused to sign off the accounts for...
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    The Republic of Ireland will make a large investment in the infrastructure of Northern Ireland, the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has announced.
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    Implementation of last January's health white paper has been set back because of NHS deficits, the acting permanent secretary of the Department of Health has admitted.
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    NHS deficits have been caused by 'systematic flaws' in the way funding is allocated across the country rather than poor local management, the Commons health select committee was told last week.
  • Public Finance
    26 Oct 06
    The significant growth in Scottish health expenditure in recent years has not been matched by improvements in services, auditor general Bob Black has suggested.
  • Public Finance
    19 Oct 06
    The battle lines were drawn this week over the Welsh Assembly's spending plans, as finance minister Sue Essex announced her draft Budget for 2007/08.
  • Public Finance
    19 Oct 06
    Up to 60% of deficit-hit NHS organisations have grounds to appeal against the tight time frames they have been given to cut services and recover their debts, according to the NHS Alliance.
  • Public Finance
    19 Oct 06
    The Cabinet Office's voluntary sector unit has set up a research centre to improve levels of charitable donations, as the government strives to provide more public services through such organisations.
  • Public Finance
    19 Oct 06
    Where there are targets, there must be statistics. Where there are statistics, there must be politics, and where there is politics, there must be public distrust. The ONS must try to find a way out...
  • Public Finance
    19 Oct 06
    As the NHS's financial crisis continues, the Private Finance Initiative has come in for its share of the blame. But this is wrong, argue Phil Lobb and Tom Startup. In fact, with a more flexible...
  • Public Finance
    19 Oct 06
    The DoH claims that 'reconfiguration' of NHS services is all about improving clinical care. Critics says it's just to balance the books. Either way there are widespread protests against hospital...
  • Public Finance
    12 Oct 06
    The public should be able to influence the quality of services through the greater use of choice mechanisms such as the NHS's payment by results, the new chair of the Audit Commission has told...

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