Forum Brief: Local government strike
Policy Consultation 17 July 2002
Local authority workers take the first national strike action in 20 years today, with the prospect of further industrial action ahead.
Forum Brief: CSR - Health sector response
Policy Consultation 16 July 2002
The chancellor has set a new target to cut the maximum wait for an NHS operation to three months.
Forum Brief: Pensions
Policy Consultation 11 July 2002
A new report has called for a simpler and more comprehensive pensions policy in a bid to avert a pensions timebomb.
Forum Brief: Nurses' pay
Policy Consultation 20 June 2002
The Royal College of Nursing may pull out from negotiations with ministers over a new pay structure and careers system for nurses.
Unison rejects PPP pay deal
Press Review 19 June 2002
Forum Brief: Compulsory pensions
Policy Consultation 17 June 2002
The Confederation of British Industry has attacked the TUC for suggesting a "tax on business" by calling for compulsory employer contributions to occupational pension schemes.
Forum Brief: FE Pay
Policy Consultation 13 June 2002
A further spate of industrial action is in train after further education unions rejected the offer of a 2.3 per cent pay rise.
Forum Brief: Social services league table
Policy Consultation 30 May 2002
Ten councils have received a zero-rating in an official league table of 150 local authorities which "names and shames" the worst social services departments in England.
Forum Brief: Stephen Byers' resignation
Policy Consultation 29 May 2002
Stephen Byers has quit the government after months of speculation about his future.
Forum Brief: Social services
Policy Consultation 28 May 2002
Health minister Jacqui Smith is today appearing at a seminar on building quality social services at the Trades Union Congress in London.
Forum Brief: Local government strikes
Policy Consultation 27 May 2002
Public service union Unison is today writing to local government employers giving notice of its intention to ballot members over industrial action in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Forum Brief: Milburn Speech
Policy Consultation 24 May 2002
Alan Milburn has said that US and European private health providers are to become "a permanent feature of the new NHS landscape".
Forum Brief: Foundation hospitals
Policy Consultation 22 May 2002
Alan Milburn has loosened up central government power over the health service's top performers, saying "the challenge is to free the best NHS hospitals from direct Whitehall control".
Forum Brief: Bus services
Policy Consultation 22 May 2002
The Local Government Association has launched a campaign to improve bus services by cutting the red tape that stops councils and operators from working together to improve provision.
Forum Brief: PFI health funding
Policy Consultation 17 May 2002
The cost of building a new hospital under the private finance initiative can be almost double that of publicly funded schemes, finds a study in today's British Medical Journal.
