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14 Jun 01
The British Medical Association has warned the government that it must provide billions of pounds if it is to recruit the extra 100,000 doctors needed to meet European Union rules on working hours.
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14 Jun 01
Middlesbrough Council has entered into a £260m public-private partnership with Hyder Business Services, the biggest deal of its kind in Northeast England.
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14 Jun 01
Frontline First is to be the Labour government's renewed watchword as it pursues its root-and-branch reform of the public services.
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14 Jun 01
The government's drugs czar, Keith Hellawell, is to lose his job in the wake of new Home Secretary David Blunkett's takeover of responsibility for the fight against drugs.
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14 Jun 01
Andrew Pinder, the e-envoy, has admitted to a fundamental difference of opinion with Tony Blair on the government's strategy for delivering services over the Internet.
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14 Jun 01
The Scottish Executive should have complete fiscal independence, a leading professor at Strathclyde University has argued.
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14 Jun 01
Labour's big idea for local government, directly elected mayors, has flunked a big test and flunked it badly.
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7 Jun 01
Incoming ministers should show more trust in the qualities of the public sector and not attach themselves to the 'myth of the private sector as super-hero', a new policy document, Transforming...
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7 Jun 01
The London Borough of Brent has become one of the first councils to allow staff transferred under outsourcing deals to retrieve their local government pension with backdated benefits.
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7 Jun 01
Patients are to be encouraged to make their voice heard in the debate over how the health service is to be run.
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7 Jun 01
Unison has criticised the Scottish Executive for limiting the scope of its Freedom of Information Bill to public authorities while exempting many other organisations that provide public services.
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7 Jun 01
Angry nursing home owners in Devon have cancelled their contracts with the county council for the care of elderly people after the two sides failed to agree higher fees.
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7 Jun 01
Unions are ready to boycott the government's promised investigation into the so-called 'two-tier' workforce, amid concerns that it could become a propaganda exercise.
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7 Jun 01
The Local Government Association has proposed setting up an independent commission to examine the long-term future of local government finance and agree 'a fair deal' for councils.
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7 Jun 01
Labour's plans to increase dramatically the number of doctors in training could be severely hampered by a shortage of medical academics, the British Medical Association warned this week.
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7 Jun 01
Lambeth council in south London is to consider waiving multi-million pound compensation rights in an attempt to make a speedy withdrawal from its ill-fated housing benefit contract with outsourcing...
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7 Jun 01
A new, more meaningful measure of councils' progress in getting all services on-line by 2005 is likely to be adopted during the summer.
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7 Jun 01
A government unit is set to provide financial backing for a newspaper for the homeless. Funding for the newspaper, Rhythm of the Streets , will come from the Rough Sleepers' Unit.
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31 May 01
The government is sticking to its recommendations that local authorities open up more rights of way, despite a new rash of foot and mouth disease outbreaks.
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31 May 01
The legal challenge to the government's plans for a public-private partnership for the London Tube network has been postponed after the administrative court agreed to requests from London Underground...
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31 May 01
Oldham council is seeking aid from the government following the rioting in the town last weekend.
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31 May 01
The NHS Confederation is to investigate the number of managers needed to implement the government's modernisation plans.
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31 May 01
Northern Ireland Assembly members have dubbed senior hospital managers 'fat cats' after nearly half of all pay awards exceeded ministerial caps.
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31 May 01
Four out of five head teachers back calls for a two-week school break in October to reduce stress among teachers and pupils, according to research by the Local Government Association.
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31 May 01
Head teachers are demanding the right to expel pupils whose parents have been violent or aggressive towards school staff.