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13 Sep 01
Birmingham City Council has been criticised by its own watchdog for evicting a blind man who had fallen behind with his rent payments.
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13 Sep 01
Heart and lung transplant patients who died at a south London hospital could have survived had they been treated elsewhere, an investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement said this week.
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13 Sep 01
Plans to implement a new model for Private Finance Initiative projects in the NHS have been put on hold while the Department of Health carries out a review of its legality.
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13 Sep 01
A Scottish NHS Trust behind a flagship Private Finance Initiative hospital is threatening to make 200 staff redundant in an attempt to cut costs.
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13 Sep 01
It is unlikely that large numbers of English NHS patients will be sent for treatment to other European Union countries in the near future, Public Finance has learned.
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6 Sep 01
The British Medical Association this week increased the pressure on the NHS to bring negotiations on the new GP contract to a speedy conclusion.
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6 Sep 01
An independent review commissioned by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) has proposed increasing chief executives' pay by up to 18%.
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23 Aug 01
The Commission for Health Improvement has handed out its fiercest criticism yet of a hospital trust, declaring the Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust in Surrey as in urgent need of improvement.
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23 Aug 01
Like the sound of English batsmen's stumps being shattered, the picture of students, especially women, celebrating ever-better A-level results has fast become one of the traditional images of our...
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23 Aug 01
The prime minister is pushing the Department of Health to consider using health facilities run by French, German, Italian and Spanish health care providers in a radical move to cut NHS waiting lists...
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23 Aug 01
First Minister Henry McLeish has risked confrontation with unions and councils by making his strongest commitment yet to the Blairite programme of public services modernisation through private sector...
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23 Aug 01
The long-running dispute between private care homeowners and local authorities in Scotland has ended, following an agreement to set up an independent review group to examine funding.
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9 Aug 01
Public sector workers are threatening industrial action in protest over Newcastle City Council's moves towards greater partnership with the private sector.
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9 Aug 01
Campaigners have vowed to fight on in their battle to widen multiple sclerosis sufferers' access to beta interferons after reports suggested their availability would be limited in the NHS.
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9 Aug 01
The National Health Service found a short cut to improvement this week with its first purchase of a ready-made private sector hospital since 1948.
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9 Aug 01
The private sector is to target MPs as part of a new offensive to counter the negative publicity surrounding public-private partnerships.
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9 Aug 01
The government's attempts to increase the number of successful adoptions by setting up a national register must not obscure the needs of children, the Association of Directors of Social Services...
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9 Aug 01
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
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2 Aug 01
Local councils are being invited to bid for a share of £25m being put up by the government to extend the street warden scheme. Councils will have to match the central payment from their own budgets...
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2 Aug 01
The Department of Health has fleshed out its proposals for franchising in the NHS.
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2 Aug 01
A report that criticises the first Private Finance Initiative hospital to be opened in England has been labelled a 'whitewash' by public service union Unison.
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2 Aug 01
The head of the body representing Scotland's independent care homes is threatening to demand that local authorities are stripped of their elderly care responsibilities, blaming councils for the...
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26 Jul 01
The government got up to its old spinning tricks this week when Education Secretary Estelle Morris re-announced the creation of 45,000 childcare places for deprived neighbourhoods.
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26 Jul 01
The council of riot-torn Oldham is being forced to slash services or raise council tax rates by as much as 20% to limit the damage that overspending is inflicting on its financial reserves.
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19 Jul 01
This week's damning report into the deaths of children at the Bristol Royal Infirmary is the first of four inquiries into the health service's handling of complaints against doctors.
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