What does 2017 hold for public services?

From longer NHS waiting lists to rising homelessness and bankrupt councils, this year could bring public services to the brinkThe NHS in England enters 2017 with a familiar but worrying vortex of inter-linked problems causing acute concern. That the service does not have the money it needs, despite record levels of investment, is so obvious as to not need restatement. It is chronically short of human resources, too; not just GPs, nurses and paramedics but also radiologists, anaesthetists, occupa