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3 Feb 00
National Health Service bed numbers came under renewed scrutiny this week. A spot check revealed that patients were waiting on trolleys much longer than the Department of Health's four-hour limit.
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3 Feb 00
The NHS is failing to meet its New Deal target and there is evidence that a significant number of health service employers have yet to commit themselves to the initiative.
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3 Feb 00
The government's attempts to modernise Whitehall were stepped up this week with the publication of the second report of the Public Services Productivity Panel.
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3 Feb 00
Conservatives in local government this week defended the sacking of John Redwood, one of the few high-profile members of William Hague's shadow cabinet, claiming he was part of the 'party's past'.
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3 Feb 00
As the furore over the role of the Freedom Party in Austria's new coalition government continued this week, it was clear the administration will take a fiscal course designed to reduce the country's...
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3 Feb 00
Local authorities scooped the pool in this week's Charter Mark awards, garnering 41% of the prizes announced by Cabinet Office Minister Mo Mowlam.
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27 Jan 00
Labour is due to give local authorities an extra £35m in this year's finance settlement but with a warning from ministers that it should be used to curb council tax increases.
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27 Jan 00
The Audit Commission should have its own House of Commons select committee in order to give the public sector watchdog's reports more weight, it was proposed this week.
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27 Jan 00
Suma Chakrabarti, the modernising head of the Performance and Innovation Unit, has been promoted to lead the Cabinet Office's economics secretariat. He replaces Willy Rickett, who has become head of...
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27 Jan 00
Best Value audit and inspection fees are likely to cost English and Welsh councils £56m.
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27 Jan 00
The government has set aside £20m to help schools introduce the new pay and performance system, schools standards minister Estelle Morris announced this week.
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27 Jan 00
The Commons Committee of Public Accounts has castigated those responsible for the chaos over immigration applications which caused 'enormous personal distress to over 200,000 applicants and their...
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27 Jan 00
A House of Commons select committee is expected to recommend a merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise in an attempt to streamline both organisations.
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27 Jan 00
Gordon Brown has huge room for manoeuvre between tax cuts, spending increases and debt repayment, according to the annual unofficial guide to the chancellor's budget options published this week by...
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27 Jan 00
Housing associations are being asked to provide new management data for the Housing Corporation, to tie in with the introduction of Best Value in local authorities.
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27 Jan 00
A national intelligence unit set up by the government to attack organised benefit fraud is to combine the knowledge of the Inland Revenue, police and immigration authorities.
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27 Jan 00
Computer services group EDS has reached an agreement with the dominant civil service union PCS to harmonise terms and conditions for more than 3,000 employees working for the company across eight...
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27 Jan 00
Three executive agencies have been forced to take urgent action to improve their services as a result of a critical report from the Public Services Productivity Panel.
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27 Jan 00
The public sector has failed to get behind the New Deal in the same way as business, Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett said this week.
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27 Jan 00
National park authorities are angry over the government's failure to fund their Best Value audit costs.
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27 Jan 00
Partnerships UK, the successor body to the Treasury Taskforce, may yet take an equity stake in Private Finance Initiative projects, MPs were told on Wednesday.
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20 Jan 00
The governors of Pimlico School have called for an urgent meeting with ministers and demanded a public inquiry into the planned Private Finance Initiative scheme earmarked for the school.
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20 Jan 00
Though few NHS managers would deny nurses and doctors their inflation-busting pay awards, the government's acceptance of the review bodies' recommendations has given them an almighty headache.
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20 Jan 00
Whitehall's poor management skills were highlighted again this week with the publication of two reports which call for vastly improved financial management at both the Ministry of Defence and in the...
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20 Jan 00
Andrew Dilnot, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and a beady-eyed monitor of public spending plans, is a leading candidate to head the government's revamped statistics service.
3 Feb 00National Health Service bed numbers came under renewed scrutiny this week. A spot check revealed that patients were waiting on trolleys much longer than the Department of Health's four-hour limit.
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