Public Services
Police pay reform should promote performance, not penny-pinching
Responding to today's publication of the Windsor Review, Tom Gash, a Fellow of the Institute for Government, says police pay reform should promote performance - not penny-pinching.
Another Lansley u-turn – this time over the “NHS privatisation tax”
Unite, the largest union in the country, have won their campaign against government plans to introduce a 14 per cent “NHS privatisation tax”.
Milburn rejects offer to be candidate for chair of NHS Commissioning Board
Embattled health secretary Andrew Lansley suffered a further blow today with the news former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn has rejected his personal request to become a candidate for the chair of the NHS Commissioning Board.
Will Lansley listen to Patient Opinion?
Andrew Lansley said: “Patients must have more say and more choice.” Patient Opinion succeeds in giving them more say; the only question is: will the government listen?
Why the government’s proposals on public health are dead on arrival
Shadow public health minister Diane Abbott writes exclusively for Left Foot Forward on the government's proposals on public health.
Lansley’s retreat on price competition for healthcare
Campaigners against the coalition’s NHS reforms secured a victory this week, following a u-turn by Andrew Lansley on price competition for healthcare, reports Trevor Cheeseman.