A government-backed investment fund for third sector organisations has helped form the largest social enterprise consortium of its kind to provide out-of-hours health care
With Lord Darzi's review pushing for greater integration of health and social care, the appointment of a joint finance director for Kingston's council and primary care trust is being closely watched
Labour is giving its flagship Building Schools for the Future programme a makeover after criticisms of slow procurement, inner-city bias and poor building design
MPs from across the political divide have called for cross-party agreement on a policy of early intervention with children to tackle the 'inter-generational nature' of social problems
Local Government Association Liberal Democrat group leader Richard Kemp has criticised proposals from his party's shadow chancellor to slash the pay of top public sector professionals
Prison officers have threatened to take strike action after it emerged that a computer disk containing the details of 5,000 justice staff had been lost by government IT contractor EDS. Justice...
Local government workers in Scotland are planning a further one-day strike later this month, following the failure of unions and local authority employers to reach agreement on pay
The Scottish Government is to press ahead with its controversial plan for a Scottish Futures Trust, which will play a 'key role' in delivering a £35bn investment plan over the next decade, Finance...
London's £16bn Crossrail project seemed finally to have left its troubled past behind when Gordon Brown approved it last year. But as the economic crisis worsens, doubts are growing and the scheme...
The NHS is looking at extending the choice of care and treatment to community level. But primary care trusts will have to reconfigure their services in a radical way if patients are to be offered...
A King's Fund report has said that the postcode lottery for patients with serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease persists, in spite of attempts to address it.
Government plans to allow local authorities to opt out of the housing finance system have been dismissed as unworkable. Instead, the Chartered Institute of Housing is urging the government to scrap...