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The Usual Suspects: Meet Labour's best pals in the great PFI wheeze

THROUGHOUT the PFI saga the same faces and names kept coming up.

The National (Scotland)

Why are we talking about PFI now?

The public finance initiative was brought in under John Major’s government between 1992 and 1997 but was considerably expanded after that point…

The National (Scotland)

Labour adviser says long-term sick should be forced into work

Former health secretary Alan Milburn, who is advising the government, said seven in 10 economically inactive people want to work but few are required to or have the help to do so

The Independent UK

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Integrate NHS services and job centres to get more people working, report says

Exclusive: Pioneering study says regime based largely on benefit sanctions has failed to tackle economic inactivity

The Guardian - UK

Jackie Baillie backs Wes Streeting's NHS private sector plans

SCOTTISH Labour’s deputy leader has suggested the Scottish Government should follow Wes Streeting’s plans for heavier involvement of the private…

The National (Scotland)

Labour planning to replace NHS England chair with party loyalist

Exclusive: Alan Milburn, Jacqui Smith and Sally Morgan would be contenders to take over from Richard Meddings

The Guardian - UK

A Labour government will have five years to fix the NHS or face the unthinkable

Public satisfaction with the health service is at an all-time low, so now might be time to reconsider what we expect from it

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Two former health secretaries join calls for new law on assisted dying

Senior Conservative and Labour figures said they would back changes to legislation on the issue in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Working-class people in UK ‘paid £6,000 less for same professional roles’

‘Shameful’ class pay gap is even worse for women from poorer upbringings, according to analysis by Social Mobility Foundation

The Guardian - UK

Cuts, war, Brexit: all fuel the battle for the centre ground, but no one really knows where that is

It is the concept dominating our politics, but unless people have a clear idea what it means, the debate will isolate them further, says author and broadcaster Steve Richards

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting plan to use private beds for NHS patients gets backing of Alan Milburn

The shadow Health boss wants to buy excess capacity in the private sector to carry out 233,000 procedures a year to cut NHS waiting lists if Keir Starmer becomes PM

Daily Mirror

NIO wanted Treasury to cover spiralling costs of Bloody Sunday Inquiry

Hundreds of classified government files have been opened for public viewing at the Public Record Office in Belfast.

The Independent UK

Revealed: working class people paid thousands less than middle class peers despite doing same jobs

Firms should be ‘legally required’ to publish their class pay gaps, says thinktank, after it found salary differences of up to £10,000

The Guardian - UK

UK minister said compensation for infected blood victims was mistake – inquiry

Alan Milburn, former secretary of state for health, told his Scottish counterpart Malcolm Chisholm that compensation was a ‘grave mistake’.

The Independent UK

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