20 Oct 2011
| by Alex Aiken
for councils, police authorities and local hospitals.
Winter seems to be the point at which public service ...
15 Sep 2011
| by John Woodcock
The TUC threatening Conservative ministers with waves of co-ordinated strikes; Eurosceptic backbenchers muttering ominously about betrayal and rebellion on Europe; schools and hospitals feeling the squeeze; and a Tory Chancellor holding out against changing economic course despite a growing chorus ...
13 Apr 2011
| by Dan Wood
reassured by their local hospital, they don t notice the team of community nurses helping patients to enjoy healthier lives at home. Any shift in services from hospitals to the community is perceived as a cut, even ...
30 Mar 2011
| by Luke Blair
probed for spending on speed cameras, and hospitals harangued for parking fines, there is one tiny little ...
03 Feb 2011
| by Anthony Hilton
in British company boardrooms than there are in our mental hospitals.
02 Feb 2011
| by Luke Blair
upheaval, last week it was announced that services in Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, would be changing. Why ...
still feel their local hospital is only a proper one if it has a full scale, fully equipped, 24 ...
philanthropists wanted to build their hospitals, many decades before the creation of the NHS. And never mind ...
Meanwhile in the public sector, the merger market is doing rather better. Hospital trusts and primary care trusts are amalgamating, schools are consolidating and even some major councils are talking about getting together to share services. And with the localism bill published this week, the pressures ...
of cancelling 21,874 new homes, 738 school projects, 52 hospitals and 246 km of road. It will all mean a very ...
the same recession as us.
People believe money spent building schools and hospitals, paying teachers ...
09 Jun 2010
| by Alex Hilton
Cameron is preparing the ground for cuts through the use of a spending 'star chamber' in what Chancellor George Osborne calls a 'once in a generation' opportunity. But Government plans aren't as efficient as one might think. In health, Andrew Lansley has axed Labour's hospital reconfiguration programme ...