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: reshuffle reflections; NHS productivity ponderings; and local government…
This week: Raab fallout; a manifesto for adult social care reform; and the government hits its police target
The big news in Westminster this week is obviously the resignation of the deputy PM, who…
This week: declining satisfaction with the NHS; a numberless workforce plan; and teachers…
This week: Delays to the obesity prevention strategy; DHSC’s accounts raise red flags; and the government responds to the MacAlister review