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4 Oct 01
NHS chiefs have called on doctors to vaccinate more than 5.8 million pensioners against flu to try to ease the burden on the health service this winter.
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4 Oct 01
The new arrangements were introduced on October 1, categorising elderly patients requiring long-term nursing care into three funding categories £35, £70 and £110 per week following an assessment...
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4 Oct 01
Local Government Secretary Stephen Byers' promise to conduct a review of the Best Value regime, made at this week's Labour Party conference in Brighton, will be music to the ears of many of those who...
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4 Oct 01
Ministers should take account of local factors before dismissing chief executives of failing NHS trusts, according to a public sector management expert.
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4 Oct 01
Fewer people are crossing local authority boundaries to be housed by a registered social landlord.
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4 Oct 01
Teaching unions have dismissed statistics published on October 3 showing a 16% increase in the number of people applying to train as teachers.
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4 Oct 01
Union leaders warned this week that ministers had 'no mandate' to privatise the public services and urged the government to give up its 'disastrous' experiment with the private sector.
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4 Oct 01
Councils have been left floundering by central government's reticence over plans for e-government, according to public sector IT managers.
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27 Sep 01
A surprise bill to grant local authorities more freedom to borrow in an attempt to placate unions and put public services on a more 'level playing field' with the private sector will be severely...
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27 Sep 01
The best NHS trusts will be allowed to set up trading arms to sell services to organisations in the public and private sectors, Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced this week.
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27 Sep 01
Doncaster, labelled as local government's most rotten borough, will next May become the first northern English town with a directly elected mayor.
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27 Sep 01
Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has stunned Tory moderates by selecting the extreme Eurosceptic MP Edward Leigh as his nominee to chair the influential Public Accounts Committee.
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27 Sep 01
Managers at the London Borough of Hackney have warned that the crisis-ridden authority may have to spend money it does not have to meet the government's demands.
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27 Sep 01
Housing associations should not use rent restructuring as an excuse for failing to reinvest surpluses in their stock, housing minister Lord Falconer told the conference.
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27 Sep 01
First Minister Henry McLeish has published his long-awaited plans to provide free personal care to elderly people in Scotland.
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27 Sep 01
CIPFA this week called for a fundamental shift in the balance between local and central tax raising.
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27 Sep 01
The Liberal Democrats have demanded an immediate moratorium on all NHS Private Finance Initiative schemes and greater scrutiny of private sector involvement in the public services.
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27 Sep 01
The costs of increased security in the capital following the terrorist attacks on the US will have to be met by London council taxpayers unless the government agrees to a request for extra funding...
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27 Sep 01
Labour's part-privatisation plans for the London Underground face further public scrutiny after an influential parliamentary committee said it would investigate whether the government's proposed...
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27 Sep 01
A council has urged local primary care groups to end years of uncertainty for patients by completing a review of services by November.
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27 Sep 01
Cynics who criticised a proposed race equality code of practice for RSLs have been largely silenced, according to the chair of the inquiry team that drew it up.
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27 Sep 01
Public service union Unison has demanded an urgent meeting with health minister Jacqui Smith to discuss the staffing 'crisis' in social services.
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27 Sep 01
Housing stock transfers have become too process-driven and do not provide enough choice for tenants, social landlords at the National Housing Federation conference in Birmingham were told.
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27 Sep 01
The NHS must 'get real' on pay and usher in a new culture of respect and partnership with all staff, Unison assistant general secretary Bob Abberley told the CIPFA health conference this week.
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27 Sep 01
The NHS director of finance has acknowledged the rising cost pressures faced by the health service and promised to take these into account when allocating funding for next year.
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