All Labour policy articles – Page 29
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Dobson says PFI sign-offs prove Labour is delivering
The government has finally managed to get the first wave of major private finance initiative deals signed off. Outgoing health secretary Frank Dobson approved a £96m PFI deal for Swindon and Marlborough trust last week, bringing the number of PFI hospitals under construction to 15, with a total value of ...
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Unions attack Labour on PFI
The Labour Party is facing a tough challenge to its use of the private finance iniative this week, at the Scottish Trade Union Congress in Glasgow.
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Same again but with a difference The only real option open to Labour is to fund the nurses' pay award
Ministers are currently having that hardest of lessons about the NHS rammed down their throats - namely, that no matter how much money you allocate to it, sooner or later (usually sooner) it will raise a cacophonous clamour for even more.
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A curtain call for the dame The reinvention of Sheila Masters - we are all New Labour now
Few involved in NHS finances will be surprised by the Treasury white paper's £1bn savings target for health service running costs (See News, pages 4-5). The chancellor first announced the figure last July when he set out the results of the comprehensive spending review.
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Labour's NHS reforms put before Parliament
Legislation to implement the government's primary care and quality reforms is expected to be announced in the Queen's speech next week.
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Labour warned by academics on drift towards centralisation
Labour looks set to repeat a key Conservative error by imposing heavy-handed central control on the NHS, according to the most comprehensive review yet of the last set of reforms.
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Managers back authenticity of Labour's latest waiting list tally
NHS 'waiting list buster' Peter Homa has defended managers against Conservative claims that the record 45,000 drop in waiting lists announced last week was achieved by dubious methods.
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Labour's first year: not what the doctors ordered
Laurence Buckman, GP negotiator 'They have promised much and done little. You do not build policy in a vacuum - you start from where people are - so it is not surprising a lot of their ideas have built on Conservative policy. But at times it has been difficult to ...
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Labour pains
This year, the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting follows 14 months of Labour government. But the doctors' leaders don't seem very happy. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Controversial ACHCEW chief takes Labour whip in Lords
Community health councils chief Toby Harris has been made a working peer, taking the Labour whip in the Lords.