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1 Feb 01
William Hague has promised that the next Conservative government would 'deregulate' schools and hospitals as part of a drive to boost standards in public services.
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1 Feb 01
The most expensive building venture undertaken by English Partnerships, the government's national urban regeneration and development agency, faces its acid test this week when the London Borough of...
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25 Jan 01
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has pledged an extra £100m for the government's neighbourhood renewal fund, doubling the amount of money being given to deprived areas next year. The money is in...
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25 Jan 01
A new magazine went on sale in British hospitals this week, with the aim of raising an extra £5m to make patients' stays more comfortable. The team behind feelgood hope that sales of their glossy mix...
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25 Jan 01
Cemeteries, it appears, have become perilous places. According to the Association of Burial Authorities, the problem is the gravestones themselves: one in ten, it says, is a public danger. Crumbling...
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11 Jan 01
Local authority and NHS leaders this week called on the government to give district councils the right to scrutinise local health services.
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4 Jan 01
Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced an £87.5m boost for cancer care this week
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4 Jan 01
A year-long mass vaccination programme that cost £20m has prevented 50 deaths from meningitis C and almost completely eradicated the disease, the Department of Health said this week
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4 Jan 01
Andrew Foster has received a knighthood in the New Year's Honours List
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14 Dec 00
An extra 39,000 recruits will be needed to meet the government's target of a net gain of 20,000 nurses in England by 2004, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
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14 Dec 00
The largest tax cuts in the history of the Irish state were announced last week by finance minister Charlie McCreevy.
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7 Dec 00
The new head of the NHS Executive said this week that he aims to create a single health service, breaking down the barriers between public health, social services and the NHS.
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7 Dec 00
The NHS Plan has not altered the Department of Health's determination to deliver its 1998 information technology strategy, HFMA delegates were told.
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7 Dec 00
Departing NHS finance director Colin Reeves has urged health authorities to spend the extra cash they have been given in the current financial year as a 'necessary first step in making the NHS Plan a...
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7 Dec 00
Up to 15 government departments' will publish accounts containing errors when they are made public early in the New Year.
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30 Nov 00
A £900m European Investment Bank loan for London Underground's public- private partnership would 'compromise' government policy, a leading critic of the proposed partial privatisation of the Tube...
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30 Nov 00
Local authorities may be set to receive £44bn in next year's finance settlement, an inflation-busting increase of 6.7% but, with two different funding options on offer, 47 councils are left more in...
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30 Nov 00
Public services in rural areas, including education, social care, transport and post offices, face an annual audit to ensure they are meeting minimum performance targets.
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23 Nov 00
The British Medical Association came under fire from the prime minister's office and NHS managers this week as doctors attacked the government's health service modernisation programme.
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23 Nov 00
The hunt is on for a new finance director for the National Health Service after it emerged this week that Colin Reeves will leave the post in the New Year.
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23 Nov 00
Ministers have spread most of next year's £2.9bn NHS increase evenly throughout the country, though some cash will be targeted at improving health in Labour's English heartlands.
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16 Nov 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn this week promised a significant expansion of the Private Finance Initiative and fired a broadside at those who have attacked the investment scheme.
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16 Nov 00
Ministers have altered the formula used to calculate the funding allocations for health authorities, despite a pledge that it would remain unchanged until 2002, in order to pour extra cash into...
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16 Nov 00
Two NHS trusts have been lambasted by inspectors for serious management failings and a third is to have a hit squad sent in following the publication of three damning reports.
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9 Nov 00
When Nigel Crisp was handed the BBC survey of health authorities' readiness for the winter months he must have felt lucky to start his first day as English NHS chief executive with a good news story.
1 Feb 01William Hague has promised that the next Conservative government would 'deregulate' schools and hospitals as part of a drive to boost standards in public services.
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