The National Health Service will not be spared the efficiency savings which the Government will impose on the entire public sector, Health Secretary warns.

The third of our instalments from ALDC’s local government conference Local Solutions takes the Government’s energy policy for local authorities as its topic. You can still hear the first two instalments: Nick Clegg and Ros Scott, and Paul Scriven on Sheffield. Today’s instalment is an excellent presentation from Mo Baines, from the Association for Public Service Excellence,

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So on the very last day of Assembly business out go health trusts and local health boards and in come seven new bodies who'll run the health service in Wales ... just like they did when I lived in a place called South Glamorgan and before terms like service providers and health commissioning had ever been coined. Out go any plans to prevent patients in North Wales to cross the border to receive ne...

There are few blunter indictments of this Government’s mismanagement of the health service than the news that numerous hospitals are ‘infested with vermin’. Over £90 billion of public money has been splashed on the health service in the past year alone – in real terms, that’s double what was spent on it in 1999. For all that so-called investment, you’d...

John McCallister MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Health Social Services and Public Safety, has challenged the DUP to start making more constructive contributions to health service debates. The DUP tabled a motion today which called on the Health Minister to urgently review the recruitment process in the Health Service. However, Mr. McCallister contended that the DUP did not come up wit...

Labour MP and local government expert The most prominent role exercised by Michael Ward, who has died aged 77 of cancer, was as Labour MP for Peterborough, when the party was in government in the 1970s. But that was just one phase of half a century of public service by a highly efficient expert on local government. His experience began as a councillor for the borough of Romford from 1958, and for ...

Well there we are then, the trade unions in local government (in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) have agreed proposed terms of reference for the arbitrator to whom the Executive of the NJC trade union side decided to refer our current pay dispute nearly two months ago. We are going to agree...

Government plans to modernise the health service and give responsibility for much of the NHS budget to GPs could prove a make or break issue for the coalition.

Anglican Friends of Israel are dismayed at the Resolution on the Middle East passed by the Anglican Consultative Committee in the name of all Anglicans last weekend. The Anglican Journal reports the dismay at the original Resolution prepared by Anglican Peace and Justice Network amongst some of the VIP delegates. According to the Anglican Journal, Claire Amos, the Anglican Communion’s Direct...