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19 Jul 01
Seven of the leading professional associations in local government have agreed a set of principles in response to Prime Minister Tony Blair's 'reform or bust' speech this week.
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19 Jul 01
The mother of all parliaments is having a difficult time with some of her more unruly offspring.
Rebellious MPs are defying parental authority and, echoing the cry of teenagers everywhere,...
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19 Jul 01
Nurses and health care assistants involved in pioneering work on aromatherapy, horticultural therapy and coronary care for Asian women have been recognised in the first Prince of Wales Awards for...
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12 Jul 01
About the only thing that provokes a consensus on Best Value is the need for change.
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12 Jul 01
Hopes that a new GP contract will be agreed soon rose this week after Health Secretary Alan Milburn invited the NHS Confederation to lead the discussions on behalf of health service employers.
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12 Jul 01
An £8.5m capital programme to build 22 new children's homes in Northern Ireland has been announced by the province's Health and Social Services Minister, Bairbre de Brún.
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28 Jun 01
The controversy over the future of public services continued to rage this week with warnings that Tony Blair's plans for widespread private sector involvement to drive up standards could become '...
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28 Jun 01
Nursing-home owners in Devon are having a crisis meeting with the new leaders of the county council in a last-ditch attempt to solve their bitter dispute over fees.
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28 Jun 01
Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson has claimed that unionists will lose out to nationalists as a result of proposals from the Hayes Review of health and social services in Northern Ireland.
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14 Jun 01
The Scottish Executive should have complete fiscal independence, a leading professor at Strathclyde University has argued.
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14 Jun 01
Labour's big idea for local government, directly elected mayors, has flunked a big test and flunked it badly.
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14 Jun 01
Frontline First is to be the Labour government's renewed watchword as it pursues its root-and-branch reform of the public services.
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14 Jun 01
The British Medical Association has warned the government that it must provide billions of pounds if it is to recruit the extra 100,000 doctors needed to meet European Union rules on working hours.
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7 Jun 01
The London Borough of Brent has become one of the first councils to allow staff transferred under outsourcing deals to retrieve their local government pension with backdated benefits.
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7 Jun 01
Patients are to be encouraged to make their voice heard in the debate over how the health service is to be run.
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7 Jun 01
Angry nursing home owners in Devon have cancelled their contracts with the county council for the care of elderly people after the two sides failed to agree higher fees.
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7 Jun 01
Unison has criticised the Scottish Executive for limiting the scope of its Freedom of Information Bill to public authorities while exempting many other organisations that provide public services.
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31 May 01
The British Medical Association has thrown its weight behind plans to check doctors' fitness to practise after the General Medical Council decided to press ahead with its proposals.
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31 May 01
Northern Ireland Assembly members have dubbed senior hospital managers 'fat cats' after nearly half of all pay awards exceeded ministerial caps.
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31 May 01
As we enter the final week of the election campaign there are two key questions: can William Hague succeed in his aim of getting the election focus firmly on the issue of Europe, and will it make any...
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24 May 01
The Royal College of Nursing's annual conference has narrowly backed a motion condemning NHS trusts and recruitment agencies that make up staffing shortfalls by hiring nurses from abroad.
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24 May 01
Long-time Labour Party watchers have grown used to dealing with the Hard Left and Soft Left. Now we have the one-man Straight Left faction too.
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17 May 01
A leaked document from the Institute for Public Policy Research on the future relationship between public services and private contractors may foreshadow a total reorganisation of health, education...
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17 May 01
Patients' lives are being put at risk because the NHS is 'chronically understaffed and underfunded', the British Medical Association warned this week.
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17 May 01
The Royal College of Nursing has welcomed the Liberal Democrats' manifesto promise to use higher taxes to recruit more nurses and give them a £1,000 pay rise.
19 Jul 01Seven of the leading professional associations in local government have agreed a set of principles in response to Prime Minister Tony Blair's 'reform or bust' speech this week.
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