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29 Jun 00
A Scottish Parliament committee has strongly criticised a consultation document on spending issued by finance minister Jack McConnell.
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29 Jun 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn is to use his speech to the NHS Confederation conference on June 30 to announce an additional £60m investment in information technology for the NHS.
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29 Jun 00
Home Secretary Jack Straw has criticised local authorities for ignoring requests for accommodation to house asylum seekers as part of the national dispersal scheme.
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22 Jun 00
The row over whether the NHS should be given full responsibility for the care of the elderly resurfaced this week as the Local Government Association claimed an Audit Commission report backed the...
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22 Jun 00
London Mayor Ken Livingstone could improve the health of the capital's poorest people, even though the Greater London Authority will not provide health services, the King's Fund said this week.
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22 Jun 00
Globalisation presents economic challenges to local authorities while raising the expectations of the electorate, according to Sir Michael Lyons.
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22 Jun 00
A cross-party group of MPs has refused to accept the government's revised proposals to partially privatise the defence research laboratories, warning that they are based on a 'wing and a prayer'.
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22 Jun 00
The National Audit Office has finally been allowed to glimpse the hallowed halls of the Royal Household with its first report into the costs of maintaining the royal palaces.
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22 Jun 00
Local authority officers should publish full reports of executive decisions taken in private, a constitutional expert told the CIPFA conference.
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22 Jun 00
Chancellor Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jack Straw are at loggerheads over the tax status of two crime-fighting organisations, according to correspondence submitted in the High Court.
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22 Jun 00
The Rural Services Partnership (RSP) has called on the government to include its demand for a 'rural round-table' as one of the recommendations in a white paper due to be published in the summer.
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22 Jun 00
The costs and benefits of projects run by regeneration bodies should be independently audited in future, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
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22 Jun 00
The government has expanded the specialist schools programme and published research showing that such schools are raising standards faster than their mainstream counterparts.
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15 Jun 00
Outsourcing company CSL has held on to its benefits contract with Sheffield City Council, in spite of its continuing failure to meet its targets.
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15 Jun 00
Integration of health and social services in England came a step closer this week as Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced a new post amalgamating the positions of chief executive of the NHS...
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15 Jun 00
Public sector organisations came out on top in four of the 15 categories at last week's Digital Britain awards organised by Microsoft.
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15 Jun 00
Political leaders could face isolation and have little control over democracy with increasing use of the Internet, Barry Quirk, chief executive of the London Borough of Lewisham, has warned.
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15 Jun 00
Lord Neill, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, launched a swingeing attack on the government's Freedom of Information Bill at the CIPFA conference in Brighton on June 14.
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15 Jun 00
An expert on primary care has called for a radical reassessment of the worth of common clinical treatments, saying they should be subjected to rigorous testing and those judged ineffective withdrawn.
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15 Jun 00
Pressure on doctors to prove their fitness to practise grew this week as the government launched a mandatory early warning scheme to protect patients.
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15 Jun 00
The Local Government Association has set up its own hit squad to establish how education authorities can intervene effectively to turn around failing schools under their control.
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15 Jun 00
Total NHS bed occupancy a weapon in the war against waiting lists has been linked to the problem of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) which claim the lives of an estimated 5,000 patients in...
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15 Jun 00
Ken Livingstone has called for the 33 London boroughs to be abolished and replaced with 14 or 15 larger authorities with increased responsibilities, including control of health and transport.
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15 Jun 00
Tony Blair's vision of electronic services for all citizens is a long way from becoming reality, with government websites 'hit and miss', hard to navigate and 'disconnected', MPs have warned.
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15 Jun 00
The government's commitment to environmental sustainability has been called into question by a member of the Commons' 'green' watchdog.
29 Jun 00A Scottish Parliament committee has strongly criticised a consultation document on spending issued by finance minister Jack McConnell.
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