PM says he will speed up public service reforms - The Guardian 1st April 2008

Gordon Brown will today tell 700 senior civil servants that the government is determined to push ahead even faster with public service reforms. He will make his call to speed up the reform agenda on the same day that the health secretary, Alan Johnson, discloses that patients needing routine operations can now choose from 180 private sector hospitals. The hardening of government policy was underlined by a private letter from the Treasury chief secretary, Yvette Cooper, to ministers in the biggest-spending public sector departments, in which she urged them to market-test many of their services in the tighter budget climate.

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