Jones warns of Welsh NHS “collapse” without reform
Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has issued a stark warning the Welsh NHS faces collapse without reorganisation.
Public Services
Comment: Hunt fails his own test on Lewisham
Jeremy Hunt has failed his own test on Lewisham Hospital following his decision on the hospital’s future last Friday.
Homecare: It’s time to care – why we need an Ethical Care Charter
Matthew Egan, assistant national officer for Unison, explains why we need an Ethical Care Charter. Homecare: It’s time to care.
Birmingham’s widening “jaws of doom”
Birmingham’s Labour-run council is facing a £625 million deficit by 2016/2017. Budget cuts of up to 50% are planned. What public services will survive?
How will UK patients benefit from Healthcare UK?
Claudia Tomlinson looks at Healthcare UK, which sells the services of the best of the UK health sector to rich people overseas.
While Gove tinkers, Wales retains the GCSE
The Welsh government has opted to retain the current exams model of GCSEs and A-Levels, putting Wales and England on course to see radically different systems.
Twigg: Gove is the “enemy of promise”
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg MP responds to today’s school league tables.
Better careers advice is needed – but the government has removed the things people are calling for
A report today calls for better careers advice; however, this is another situation where the government has already removed the thing people are calling for.
Twigg: Gove’s plans will ‘take us back to the 19th century’ and risk a “decade of decline”
Stephen Twigg today warns Michael Gove’s Ebacc plans risk “ushering in a decade of economic decline”, taking Britain back to a ’19th-century education system’.
Comment: Labour wants a true baccalaureate approach in education
Stephen Twigg MP, Shadow Education Secretary Labour has today called a debate in Parliament on the Government’s shambolic plan for changes to exams at 16. We do need to reform our education system so that it equips young people withtest