This week: The effect of GP practice closures; Rowley calls time on mental health; and house-building reforms
General
Welcome back — our blogging performance has been slightly off-track of late thanks to our…
This week: the NHS’ imminent demise (?); post-covid educational recovery; Major’s intervention on prisons
A lot has happened since our last edition — a royal… trouncing of the Conservative Party at the…
This week: junior doctors’ on the picket line; home detention for prisoners; and the future of Local Enterprise Partnerships
This week: budget prep; GP contract wrangling; and HMCTS reform
The New Economics Foundation published their assessment of the autumn statement. They call the spending projections “austerity by…
This week: excess deaths debate; refugee safeguarding failures; and reforming the Met
Strikes continue to be the only show in town, with the beginning of February shaping up to be the worst…
This week: more problems in the Met; social care business models; and local authority reserves make a baffling return
This week: the condition of the schools’ estate; Thurrock finally issues a section 114 notice; and our thoughts on NHS ‘reform’
This week: Performance Tracker 2022; the importance of experienced nurses; further delay of the fair funding review
The big news in public services this week is obviously the launch of the IfG’s…
This week: Coffey settles in; police recruits have their say; and rumblings in Thurrock
Health and care
Ignominious start as SoS for Coffey as her first communication with DHSC — which reportedly asked…
This week: health backlogs; the NHS winter plan; and conflicts over adult social care reform
Ready… set… ACTION.
Welcome back everyone. After several months in the wanting and wilted wasteland of a world…