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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
Unison, Scotland's largest public service union, has launched an attack on the Scottish Executive's plans to introduce competition to the water industry
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4 Jan 01
Police authorities are warning of a tight year ahead despite the seemingly generous 10% funding increase announced in November
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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
A registered social landlord placed under supervision by the Housing Corporation is being provided with an overdraft guarantee to protect tenants while it seeks a new partner.
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14 Dec 00
The Scottish Executive has pledged to improve its budget process following a report by an influential committee of MSPs voicing 'serious concern' over the arrangements for the scrutiny of spending...
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14 Dec 00
Trade union demands for a £1,000 pay rise for every council employee in England and Wales would cost local authorities £800m per year, according to their representative body.
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14 Dec 00
Local authorities were due to discover this week how much they will be able to spend on housing under a new system of capital allocations.
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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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14 Dec 00
Tony Blair's targets for the electronic delivery of public services are unlikely to be met, according to a survey of Public Finance readers.
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14 Dec 00
A cross-party committee of MPs has slammed Railtrack's management of the rail network and castigated its 'totally inadequate' supervision of safety procedures in a damning report published on...
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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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7 Dec 00
Scotland's top public servant, Muir Russell, will not face sanctions despite a highly critical report from the audit committee, the Scottish Executive said this week.
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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
The Business Improvement District (Bid) approach, which uses levies on businesses to transform derelict neighbourhoods across the US, will take a step closer to becoming part of the British...
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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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7 Dec 00
London local authorities could be forced to levy higher council taxes to finance Mayor Ken Livingstone's £60m plans to boost the Metropolitan Police.
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30 Nov 00
Labour MP Diane Abbott has called for the government to intervene in crisis-ridden Hackney council to protect frontline services.
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30 Nov 00
On December 11, managers at the London Borough of Hackney will learn whether the current crisis caused by a gaping hole in the budget will be compounded by a mass walkout of council staff.
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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
Local authorities should not use excess demand for social housing as an excuse for denying choice to their tenants, housing minister Nick Raynsford said this week.
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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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