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24 May 01
Tory spending proposals have been heavily criticised by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) for failing to demonstrate support for arm's-length management companies or the Private Finance...
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24 May 01
A pilot project using Internet technology to educate children who are not attending school has produced impressive results and is set to be rolled out across the country.
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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.
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17 May 01
'We've gone through lots of pain to get here, but we have never lost sight of our pupils. This Award is the most special thing.'
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17 May 01
The Private Finance Initiative this week emerged as an unlikely and crucial general election issue with the government's record on public spending being attacked on several fronts.
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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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10 May 01
Ideological differences between the main political parties on how to improve public services emerged this week as the general election campaign finally got under way.
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3 May 01
Public Accounts Committee chairman David Davis has condemned as 'staggering' the £3.9bn clinical negligence bill facing the NHS in England.
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3 May 01
Twenty-two of the poorest neighbourhoods in England have secured a total of more than £1bn in central government regeneration funding over the next ten years.
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3 May 01
GPs are angry that much is evident. The actions of those who on May Day closed their surgeries to all but emergency cases led family doctors to be mentioned in the same breath as the militant anti-...
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26 Apr 01
Doctors and managers backed Health Secretary Alan Milburn this week as he announced sweeping reforms to decentralise the NHS and cut at least £100m from the service's administration to plough back...
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19 Apr 01
The Department of Health this week launched an agency to increase patient safety and cut the cost of medical errors and negligence.
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29 Mar 01
A cross-party committee of MPs has demanded urgent talks between the government and dentists' representatives to address the 'long-standing' problem of access to NHS dental services.
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29 Mar 01
The amount of private finance committed to social housing is continuing to increase at about 16% annually.
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29 Mar 01
A picture of departmental conflict and policy incoherence emerges in last week's report on waste management from the Commons' environment select committee. The result, it implies, is that local...
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22 Mar 01
The Liberal Democrats are once again relying on a pledge to add 1p to the basic rate of income tax to woo voters, promising to fund improvements in education and bridge the Budget deficit they claim...
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22 Mar 01
Nearly one in five further education colleges is facing financial problems, despite £3bn being pumped into the sector by the government, according to an all-party committee of MPs.
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8 Mar 01
Regulators have reported a significant increase in the number of complaints and disciplinary measures against doctors and nurses.
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8 Mar 01
Reports that the European Investment Bank is ready to inject £5bn into the government's ailing public-private partnership for the Tube were denied this week.
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8 Mar 01
Staff across the public sector could be wasting thousands of working hours surfing the Internet for pornography, booking holidays or even managing their stocks and shares on-line, an exclusive survey...
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8 Mar 01
The Scots have often thought of the English as ignorant and soon they may be right. Next year, Scots will have the legal right to know a lot more than the English about what their government is doing...
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1 Mar 01
The government has been urged to put more resources into primary care in order to improve services to patients and bolster GPs' morale.
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22 Feb 01
Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged that his government will 'power ahead' with its 'fundamental' shake-up of public services if Labour wins a second term in office.
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22 Feb 01
Patients and nurses will play a key role in assessing the quality of non-clinical services in NHS trusts under new Department of Health guidance.
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