Puzzling omissions in new Financial Services Authority regulations have jeopardised arm's-length housing bodies' ability to provide insurance to thousands of tenants, it emerged this week.
Pressure mounted on the government and NHS trusts this week as the British Medical Association claimed junior doctors were not alone in working longer hours than the limit set in the European Working...
Community health services might be cut back unless primary care trusts put proper systems in place to manage the new NHS funding system, a government watchdog has cautioned.
The NHS Confederation has called for the Private Finance Initiative to be simplified and made more flexible after the announcement of further multibillion pound developments under the scheme.
A ban on smoking in enclosed public places would yield billions of pounds worth of economic benefits, an analysis for chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has found.
The number of NHS foundation trusts could double before a year-long moratorium is called on the scheme's expansion, the Department of Health said this week.
The government's Women and Work Commission was universally welcomed by unions this week, but is unlikely to defuse the 'ticking time bomb' of equal pay claims in the public sector.
Whitehall is to devolve decision-making to local authorities in nine pilot areas from next year in the first tangible example of the government's commitment to localism.
Local government leaders are painting a gloomy picture of their ability to meet Sir Peter Gershon's efficiency targets, predicting inevitable service cuts and council tax hikes.
Last week, Health Secretary John Reid outlined how he intends to save £500m on NHS bureaucracy by slashing the number of quangos. But the real work has only just begun.
The basis for awarding foundation status to high-performing NHS trusts was thrown into disarray this week after four of the 20 foundation trusts were stripped of their three-star ratings.
Local authorities' role as providers of social care could be marginalised under proposals being considered by social services minister Stephen Ladyman.
Shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin has dismissed as 'absurd' claims that measurements of Whitehall productivity can be changed to reflect accurately 'value added' improvements in services.
Social care provision could be disrupted next year and social workers' pay stopped if a dispute over registration is not resolved quickly, social care minister Stephen Ladyman has told Public...
Councils and health bodies need to ensure there are sufficient services to meet the future needs of Scotland's ageing population, an Audit Scotland report says.
The NHS Confederation called for a ring-fenced fund to tackle health inequalities this week as the Healthcare Commission warned the health service must do more to help those in greatest need.
The accounts of seven of Northern Ireland's 17 departments and major public bodies have been qualified for 2002/03 in the second year of resource accounting.
Primary care organisations are timid and lack the strategic vision to make the most of the new doctors' contract, according to GPs' leader John Chisholm.
