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Funding and mental health staff retention go ‘hand-in-hand’ – NHS chief

Boosting the mental health workforce to improve services goes “hand-in-hand” with the funding available, the chief executive of NHS England has said. Amanda Pritchard told MPs support services had significantly improved under plans to give mental ...

20 Apr 2023 at 15:36

MPs told of long wait before response to child eating disorders improves

It will take at least two years for guidance aimed at saving the lives of children and young people with acute eating disorders to be consistently followed, a senior NHS official has admitted. Campaigners have warned that people are dying ...

20 Apr 2023 at 19:39

Civil servants discussed chickenpox Covid comparisons as late as mid-March 2020

The top civil servant in the Department of Health has been questioned at the Covid-19 inquiry about why he and the UK’s most powerful official were discussing how the virus was like chickenpox as late as mid-March 2020. Sir Christopher ...

02 Nov 2023 at 16:58

David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt to give evidence to Covid inquiry

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron are among those who will give evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry next week. England’s chief medical officer Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir ...

15 Jun 2023 at 13:09

Civil Service chief tells officials to ‘relish opportunities’ of Starmer reforms

The new head of the Civil Service has told officials they must “do things differently” as part of a “rewiring” of the way government works. Sir Chris Wormald, the new Cabinet Secretary, said officials should work “much more ...

16 Dec 2024 at 12:30

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Top civil servant in Scotland to leave role

Scotland’s top civil servant will leave the post next year, the Scottish Government has announced. After three years in the role, Permanent Secretary John Paul Marks will move to head up HM Revenue and Customs in 2025. Mr ...

18 Dec 2024 at 16:22

Sir Chris Wormald confirmed as UK’s new top civil servant

Sir Chris Wormald has been appointed Cabinet Secretary, becoming the UK’s top civil servant and the Prime Minister’s most senior policy adviser. The current permanent secretary of the Department for Health and Social ...

02 Dec 2024 at 14:39

Covid campaigners criticise Wormald’s promotion to Civil Service top job

Health department chief Sir Chris Wormald’s appointment as the UK’s top civil servant is “unbelievably frustrating and worrisome”, Covid-19 victims’ campaigners said. Sir Chris was appointed as the new Cabinet ...

02 Dec 2024 at 17:25

New Covid corruption chief to leave ‘no stone unturned’, Reeves warns

The newly-appointed Covid corruption commissioner will “leave no stone unturned” as he investigates a “carnival of fraud”, Rachel Reeves has said. Tom Hayhoe, a health policy expert, has been appointed to to ...

03 Dec 2024 at 13:08

Olly Robbins appointed new Foreign Office chief

Former Brexit negotiator Sir Oliver Robbins has been appointed as the Foreign Office’s highest ranking civil servant. Sir Oliver, known as Olly, will serve as the new permanent under-secretary at the ...

08 Jan 2025 at 16:20

Government missions at risk without urgent Civil Service reform – think tank

The Government risks failing to achieve its key missions if it does not move quickly to address instability, “confused” workforce planning and diminishing morale across the Civil Service, research ...

16 Jan 2025 at 08:59

Jenrick asks top civil servant to investigate Attorney General

The Government’s top civil servant has been asked to investigate “potential conflicts of interest” in relation to ministers’ top legal adviser. Conservative shadow justice secretary Robert ...

19 Jan 2025 at 23:49

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