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17 Feb 00
A growing number of senior industrialists may be attracted to top jobs in the civil service following the appointment of Peter Gershon to head the new Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
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17 Feb 00
The head of the powerful Public Accounts Committee of MPs has slammed health authorities and trusts for not taking seriously the threat of infections picked up by patients in hospitals.
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10 Feb 00
Chris Woodhead, the chief inspector for schools, has warned that performance-related pay will have little real impact on teachers' earnings, because one in ten head teachers are incapable of...
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10 Feb 00
The government has insisted that legislation creating directly elected mayors will still be law by the summer, despite this week's defeat in the House of Lords of part of the Local Government Bill.
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10 Feb 00
Doctors who come under police investigation or are subject to complaints about their performance could face immediate suspension under proposals being considered by the General Medical Council.
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10 Feb 00
The targets announced by Tony Blair for the government's use of the Internet are under review and could be toughened following criticism that they are too general and vague.
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10 Feb 00
Housing associations have been promised lighter regulation and less bureaucracy as the Housing Corporation studies new ways to cope with the growing number of registered social landlords (RSLs).
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10 Feb 00
A new video featuring ethnic minority civil servants will be taken into local communities to try to change Whitehall's 'all white' image, Cabinet Office minister Mo Mowlam announced this week.
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10 Feb 00
The development of health and social services in Northern Ireland has been halted with the return of political uncertainty in the province.
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10 Feb 00
Weak and substandard procurement practices that have already cost the Ministry of Defence more than £60m could be the tip of the iceberg, a report from the National Audit Office revealed this week.
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10 Feb 00
More than 100 MPs have called for an investigation into allegations that the elderly suffer discrimination in the health service.
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10 Feb 00
Cabinet secretary Sir Richard Wilson this week admitted there was scope for changing the way government departments are funded, and that they could even consider bidding for money from a central 'pot...
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10 Feb 00
Public Finance editor Victor Smart is leaving to edit the business monthly Management Today .
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3 Feb 00
Education Secretary David Blunkett has ordered government intervention into the education authority in his home town of Sheffield after it was slated by Ofsted inspectors.
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3 Feb 00
Westminster City Council has appointed a new director of finance in the final stage of its plan to split the roles currently occupied by Bill Roots.
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3 Feb 00
By Maria McHale Education leaders have warned the government that its standards agenda will suffer if councils are forced to fund in full the 3.3% teachers' pay rise announced this week. Education...
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3 Feb 00
Health Secretary Alan Milburn has sought to draw a line under the prime minister's ill-judged comments on health spending last month with a conciliatory message that big money will be pumped into the...
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3 Feb 00
Procurement in the public sector is 'laborious' and dominated by traditional payment methods, according to Public Finance readers.
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3 Feb 00
French, Italian, Portuguese and Belgian environment ministers were gathering in Brussels this week to back calls for 'Car-Free Day 2000' to be extended across the European Union. The launch on...
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3 Feb 00
The City of Naples' search for a private partner to relaunch the southern Italian spa resort of Terme di Agnano has been narrowed down to two Italian consortiums, both with interests in the leisure...
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3 Feb 00
Keele University has become the first higher education institution in the UK to use a bond to finance the refurbishment of its student accommodation and pay off its debts.
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3 Feb 00
Ministers will lead a robust reaffirmation of government policy at Labour's Local Governance conference this weekend when they will tell local authorities in blunt terms to 'reform or die'.
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3 Feb 00
Receipts on France's state-run Pari-Mutuel (PMU) horse race betting network are rising, which is good news for the French ministry of finance. The bad news is that the rise is only slight and the...
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3 Feb 00
Public services in France faced severe disruption this week as the compulsory 35-hour working week became reality. February 1 was the due date for the introduction of the much-debated 'loi Aubry'...
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3 Feb 00
Lack of management resources could threaten the success of primary care groups, the commissioning bodies warned this week.
17 Feb 00A growing number of senior industrialists may be attracted to top jobs in the civil service following the appointment of Peter Gershon to head the new Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
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