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13 Dec 01
The government's decision to give the English NHS fewer national targets and allow patients more choice over where they are treated has been welcomed by doctors and managers.
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13 Dec 01
Increasing patient expectations will provide the greatest impetus for the NHS to improve, Neil McKay, NHS chief operations officer told the HFMA conference.
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13 Dec 01
Cancer services have improved in England and Wales but the quality of care depends on where patients live and the type of cancer they have, a report from the Commission for Health Improvement and the...
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13 Dec 01
The Scottish Executive has been accused of 'massaging figures' after it announced an 11% grant increase for local authorities.
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6 Dec 01
Education and social services are in line for a budget increase of at least 4% in next year's finance settlement for local authorities.
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6 Dec 01
Chancellor Gordon Brown's scenario for revitalised health spending including an instant £1bn boost was designed to bring certainty and clarity to the argument over funding.
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6 Dec 01
Public sector unions have reacted furiously to the Department of Health's plans to link up with Britain's largest private sector provider.
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6 Dec 01
Almost two-thirds of public sector organisations fear they will be unable to afford the next round of pay increases, according to Public Finance 's latest survey.
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6 Dec 01
Private companies must be allowed to absorb swathes of the public sector if service improvements are to be achieved, a former Treasury mandarin has claimed.
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6 Dec 01
Vulnerable children and adults are being let down by failures in local authorities' transport services, the Audit Commission said this week.
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22 Nov 01
NHS managers are flocking to unions in the wake of growing concerns that they are being made unnecessary 'scapegoats' for failures in health, according to the FDA.
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22 Nov 01
English councils are set to receive an increase of around 7% in grant when ministers unveil the provisional 2002/03 finance settlement next week, Public Finance can reveal.
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22 Nov 01
A public health doctor who helped pioneer primary care commissioning will be the new chief executive of the NHS Confederation.
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22 Nov 01
Wendy Thomson, head of the Office for Public Service Reform in the Cabinet Office, has thrown her weight behind the idea of a genuine and extensive transfer of powers to local service deliverers, in...
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22 Nov 01
Northern Ireland's health service has been thrown into crisis by a cash shortage, according to Dr Joe Hendron, chair of the Assembly's health committee.
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15 Nov 01
As the British government muses over the future of local democracy, a cluster of countries is grappling with the gargantuan task of creating local government in a bid to join the European Union.
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15 Nov 01
Unison members at Westminster City Council have threatened to walk out over plans for a £1bn outsourcing contract intended to improve customer services.
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8 Nov 01
A decision to give free nursing care to all nursing home residents in Wales will put pressure on the government to simplify care funding in England, Help the Aged said this week.
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8 Nov 01
GPs have welcomed the double boost to primary care in the poorest areas of England that was launched by health ministers this week.
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8 Nov 01
The Local Government Association has declared its 'emphatic' opposition to any attempt by the government to ring-fence local authorities' education budgets.
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8 Nov 01
It is now just over a year since a new price control mechanism was introduced to curb the spiralling cost of generic drugs.
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8 Nov 01
Whitehall is out of step with public opinion over care for the elderly, according to a new survey.
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8 Nov 01
The government's micro-management of the NHS is frustrating innovation and preventing managers improving the service to patients, the NHS Confederation claimed this week.
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1 Nov 01
The Local Government Association has demanded assurances that the government's shake-up of the asylum system will include funding for services provided by councils.
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1 Nov 01
The government's review of Best Value could escalate the costs of delivering council services, raising the spectre of future cuts in vulnerable areas, it has emerged.
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