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6 Jan 00
Local education authorities that refuse to take bullying seriously could face increasing legal action from the victims, a leading teaching union has warned.
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6 Jan 00
The Treasury wants members of its public services directorate to shadow head teachers, NHS executives and senior local government officials to establish a better grasp of government spending...
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16 Dec 99
Contractors bidding for Private Finance Initiative contracts in the health service face an extra round of competition following the introduction of long-awaited guidance by Health Secretary Alan...
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16 Dec 99
The first of a rolling series of Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate reports into Welsh social services have produced a winner and a loser.
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9 Dec 99
The Scottish Ambulance Service should introduce a multi-million pound call prioritisation service as soon as possible, the National Audit Office said this week.
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2 Dec 99
Doctors' allowances are under threat following an Audit Commission report showing that fraud perpetrated by general practitioners in England has increased tenfold in the past year.
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2 Dec 99
There must be no let-up in health authorities' and trusts' battle to bear down on debt and meet the government's targets, NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves said this week.
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25 Nov 99
Seventeen local authorities placed under 'special measures' by the government have complained that they were treated unfairly by being named and shamed by social care minister John Hutton.
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18 Nov 99
Two senior government ministers have set out to find a cure for the plague of form-filling and local government is due to be one of the chief beneficiaries.
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18 Nov 99
The health service is being urged to reduce its deficit next year, even if that means postponing initiatives and cutting other services, finance managers said this week.
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18 Nov 99
An improvement agency covering the whole of the public sector in Scotland could be set up, following the publication next month of a report by the Best Value Taskforce.
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18 Nov 99
The government's crackdown on fraud in the National Health Service started in earnest this week with new powers for the NHS Tribunal to disqualify practitioners who have committed fraud.
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18 Nov 99
Rural districts are likely to benefit hugely from radical changes in the way Scotland's 15 health boards are funded. But the new system is not likely to be implemented before 2001/02, it emerged this...
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18 Nov 99
The chief secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Smith, is to create a series of Service Delivery Agreements spanning the whole of government, he reveals in this week's Public Finance .
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11 Nov 99
Home Secretary Jack Straw has been forced to go back to the drawing board after it emerged that his draft Freedom of Information Bill contravened international agreements on the environment.
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11 Nov 99
The message from Liverpool this week was that the city of Derek Hatton, the Militant Tendency and local government anarchy is finally dead.
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11 Nov 99
The Prescription Pricing Authority has suggested setting aside its prescription backlog, wiping out two months' data, as one way of getting future prescribing information to health authorities and...
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11 Nov 99
Welsh health authorities and trusts face another year of deep cuts in services, despite receiving an extra £14m from the National Assembly.
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4 Nov 99
Only a small number of primary care trusts (PCTs) may be formed next year, following the British Medical Association's insistence that the new bodies should receive support from at least two-thirds...
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4 Nov 99
The NHS will be spared the rigid Best Value regime imposed on local government and will focus on back-room support rather than clinical services.
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21 Oct 99
Local health schemes, such as the development of diabetes care or minor injuries units, face the axe as a result of the government's change of direction on funding.
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16 Sep 99
Short-termism and vague targets set by councils are hampering innovative work on regeneration and economic development, the Audit Commission warned this week.
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9 Sep 99
The NHS Confederation called this week for a 'modest' increase in the number of health service managers to help health authorities fulfil their new strategic role.
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9 Sep 99
Northern Ireland health officials have recommended that a new £75m hospital, most probably financed with private cash, should replace two hospitals that won plaudits for their care of victims of the...
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2 Sep 99
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong has announced two new business-oriented appointments to the Audit Commission.
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