Rail passengers are forced to travel in 'intolerable conditions' on overcrowded trains and urgent action is needed to stop the situation from getting even worse, according to MPs.
Labour's controversial plan to overhaul the NHS has placed hospital trusts at high financial risk while police authorities, probation boards and local government are all blighted by poor internal...
Northern Ireland's Review of Public Administration, published this week, has described five options for how the province's public services can be provided in the future.
Social care is to get its own voice in Whitehall with the creation of a national director of social care, Health Secretary John Reid told social services chiefs this week.
Patients across England should be able to book hospital appointments electronically within two years, the Department of Health said this week as it awarded the first contract in its multi-billion...
The public's reluctance to approach pharmacists for medical advice could stymie government plans to give high-street chemists a greater role in patient care, the Consumers' Association said this week.
Home Secretary David Blunkett's plans to build two 'super prisons' to combat the UK's rapidly growing inmate population are unnecessary and ill-considered, it was claimed this week.
Trade unions got their wish and delivered a bloody nose to ministers at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth last week on the issue of foundation hospitals.
Public service unions are to harden their opposition to foundation hospitals, after the government gave notice it would ignore a motion condemning the policy passed by a clear majority at the Labour...
A member of the original Royal Commission on long-term care has said that the drive to raise care standards for the elderly should take precedence over efforts to secure total state funding.
Health service boards must begin to think strategically about the impact of soon-to-be-implemented changes, NHS England finance and investment director Richard Douglas told the annual CIPFA health...
Health Secretary John Reid announced £93m to fund three cardiac schemes this week in the latest tranche of the government's ten-year modernisation plan for heart services.
Health Secretary John Reid has warned that the government's avowed philosophy of 'new localism' does not mean that frontline institutions will be freed from the constraints of national policy.
The four UK health departments must launch a co-ordinated programme to tackle nurse shortages or patient care will be put at risk, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
The Liberal Democrats go into their conference at Brighton next week hoping for a boost from having either won or taken second place in the Brent East by-election, which was due to take place on 18...
Every Northern Ireland citizen is to be given a health and care number, to enable all health practitioners in the province to access their personal health records.