The NHS must recruit many more consultant obstetricians and thousands of midwives to ensure a major shake-up in maternity services delivers better patient care, experts said this week.
Anti-nuclear campaigners this week accused Defence Secretary Des Browne of 'evasiveness' over the cost of the proposed Trident weapons replacement system.
Public Accounts Committee chair Edward Leigh has reacted angrily to National Audit Office findings that 'efficiency gains' reported under the Gershon agenda are still not being robustly measured by...
Government health watchdogs have criticised the 'disgraceful' lack of co-ordinated effort in reducing the number of children who have to be taken to hospital following preventable injury.
GPs could deliver huge savings for the NHS by taking on more of the care traditionally given in acute hospitals, according to a Department of Health expert.
A £12m Department of Health joint venture might have broken European Union procurement law and overestimated the potential size of the market by a factor of 16, the National Audit Office has found.
A new government-sponsored commission is to examine ways to encourage more young people, women and individuals from ethnic minorities to become councillors.
Whitehall health officials this week conceded that they have taken on board the lessons of a failed hospital development after senior MPs slammed the project's management.
The lack of a final agreed budget for the 2012 Olympics presents a major risk to the successful delivery of the games, government auditors warned this week.
Civil servants across the UK have begun a two-week overtime 'ban' after disrupting tax office, jobcentre and customs services this week with a 24-hour strike over job cuts, privatisations and pay.
'Thinking the unthinkable' is a term synonymous with New Labour's rather self-aggrandising approach to policy reform yet the reality is that some ministers have been marginalised for obliging with...
The Department for Constitutional Affairs needs to control the 'ridiculous' situation in which millions of pounds of fines go uncollected, the Public Accounts Committee said this week.
The forthcoming Commission for Equality and Human Rights should review political parties' methods of selecting candidates for local elections, according to a think-tank.
Improving access to English lessons is one of the most useful steps councils can take to ensure migrant workers are better integrated into their communities, the local government watchdog said this...
Central government claims that there is no more money to fund adult social care 'ring hollow' as it is withholding an extra £1bn from the 2007/08 local government grant, councils have said.
Local authorities may have seriously underestimated the condition of their homes before the government embarked on its drive to bring them up to standard, according to a new study.