This week: spending review timings; rethinking GP access; and local election watch
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You can’t move these days without someone speculating when the general election’s going to be. But you hear less…
This week: more cuts for unprotected services; NHS waiting list ambitions; and dodgy…
This week: Lansley 2.0?; yet more benefits from Sure Start; and some rare good news in prisons
Westminster has been rocked by a honey trap scandal, with a range of MPs, staffers, and journalists…
This week: public sector pay trends; AI myth-busting; and a reality check for Welsh education policy
Things seem quiet in Westminster, maybe too quiet, as we emerge blinking from a four-day weekend…
This week: Spring budget breakdown; prisons and police problems; council cuts
Fiscal fiction? Fictitious future? Politicians’ pretence over public spending? If you still haven’t had enough of the…
This week: fiscal fantasies; GP contract quarrelling; and brutal cuts in Birmingham
I had to check my calendar a few times to make sure this one is true, but it seems that we have another fiscal…
This week: what to expect in 2024; good news on the elective waiting list; and Ofsted…
This week: the public services naughty or nice list; Streeting’s Singapore fling…
This week: belated autumn statement analysis; crumbling new schools; Nottingham…