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15 Jul 99
The Northern Ireland Office has denied that the local health service faces 'nightmare cuts' in the wake of this year's pay award to doctors and nurses.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to fund its proposed expansion of further education through more use of the Private Finance Initiative in the sixth-form sector, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alan Milburn said...
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8 Jul 99
New government measures to improve public health and save 300,000 lives in the next ten years will fail unless there is a 'massive shift' of funds to poor areas, the NHS Confederation said this week.
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8 Jul 99
The £650m third wave of NHS private finance schemes announced on July 7 will lead to the closure or downgrading of hospitals, and could spark another row over private funding.
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8 Jul 99
Local authorities may have to boost efforts to combat stress and bullying at work after two councils this week paid damages of more than £150,000 to ex-employees.
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1 Jul 99
The National Health Service Executive has relaxed financial rules compelling NHS trusts and health authorities collectively to break even this year.
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17 Jun 99
They were trumpeted as the end of an iniquitous internal market in health.
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10 Jun 99
The burden of policing the European Commission ban on Belgian meat and dairy produce will impose fresh pressure on councils.
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10 Jun 99
Four out of five health authorities and a third of hospitals are in debt, leading to a cumulative deficit of £540m, according to the Audit Commission.
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3 Jun 99
NHS managers are all too aware that there is rarely a moment to pause and take stock.
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3 Jun 99
The Private Finance Initiative must be applied wholesale to the National Health Service to ensure as many people as possible are treated, according to shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe.
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27 May 99
Smokers and homeless people are being targeted as part of a drive to improve the health of some of the poorest areas in England.
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27 May 99
The NHS is wasting up to £50m a year on private health care for mentally ill patients after closing nearly 10,000 psychiatric beds, health watchdog London Emergency Health has claimed. In a report...
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20 May 99
Health authorities in Wales will receive more than £2bn in 1999/2000 £193m more than last year, representing an increase of more than 10.2%.
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20 May 99
The Department of Health is planning to introduce money-back financial incentives for health authorities across the country as part of its crackdown on fraud in the National Health Service.
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20 May 99
Housing may be ignored by Labour as the government sets spending targets for a second term in office, prospective mayor of London Ken Livingstone warned this week.
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20 May 99
Critics of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) have leapt on a National Audit Office report criticising the first major NHS hospital built under the policy.
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13 May 99
The Cabinet Office seriously breached parliamentary accountability when it failed to meet statutory financial deadlines following the privatisation of three government agencies in 1996, according to...
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6 May 99
The English NHS is slowly hauling itself back into the black but a significant number of health authorities and trusts are still in serious financial difficulties, according to the National Audit...
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29 Apr 99
On May 6, the local council elections in England, Wales and Scotland will be an important test of the state of the parties.
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22 Apr 99
Ministers have rejected NHS finance leaders' calls for financial targets to be relaxed and have ordered health authorities and trusts in England back to the drawing board to eliminate a projected £...
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15 Apr 99
The first 21 projects in the government's £80m Sure Start programme have been given the green light and are expected to provide extra services to 18,000 disadvantaged children four years old and...
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8 Apr 99
The government is pressing ahead with funding changes for supported and sheltered housing despite objections from housing associations.
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29 Oct 98
The government may be forced into a messy reselection process for the Welsh Assembly following the shock resignation this week of the Secretary of State for Wales, Ron Davies.
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29 Oct 98
Nine out of ten NHS trusts believe they need more money to cope with the demand for care over the winter months.
15 Jul 99The Northern Ireland Office has denied that the local health service faces 'nightmare cuts' in the wake of this year's pay award to doctors and nurses.
