Council leaders are to deliver a stark warning to ministers that key public services will suffer unless they are given significant new resources in the forthcoming Spending Review, Public Finance...
As governments wrestle with funding growing public services, big business is getting away with millions in tax avoidance schemes. Tightening tax laws could claw back vital cash for social investment
Doctors' leaders have warned that the government's determination to make public services competitive may undermine general practice and is tantamount to a trade in patients.
The objections have been heard, the legislation passed, the votes counted and boards of governors installed. But, as the first NHS foundation trusts settle into their new status this week, they will...
Whitehall's union leaders have asked ministers to clarify the nature and extent of job cuts and relocations urgently, following the Lyons review and the chancellor's Budget statement.
The Department of Health denied it had demoted NHS information technology supremo Richard Granger this week following the appointment of a senior doctor to share his responsibilities.
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has told his party's spring conference that he is not scared to use the word 'redistribution' when describing his tax and spending plans.
Council social services are better managed than they were seven years ago, but there remains a big gap between the best and worst, according to a 'hand-over' report on the sector published by the...
British local government is not powerful enough to underpin a switch to a social insurance scheme for national health care, while Conservative Party plans for 'patient passports' to ease the burden...
The Conservative Party will go back to first principles and avoid the lure of quick-fix solutions to the council tax controversy, its new local government finance spokesman has told Public Finance .
Choice will play a central part in the next phase of public service reform, opening up services to greater influence from users, according to one of the prime minister's chief advisers.
Sir Michael Lyons has urged ministers to identify a further 40,000 Whitehall posts for relocation, after Chancellor Gordon Brown this week backed plans to move 20,000 civil service jobs out of London.
Thousands of care homes in England are endangering their residents by failing to meet national standards on the handling and management of drugs, it emerged this week.
Bath and North East Somerset Council has rejected criticisms that its 1999 stock housing transfer was littered with 'inappropriate and unlawful' actions this week.
Primary care trusts are redesigning services to improve access to local NHS treatment, but implementation is patchy and is being hampered by a lack of management capacity, the Audit Commission said...
When the NHS was established in 1948, Nye Bevan believed its effect on the nation's health would be so profound that future governments would not have to increase its budget greatly.
The Commons Treasury select committee is demanding that Treasury permanent secretary Gus O'Donnell explain a three-month delay in the publication of a report outlining the future of the Inland...
One in five civil servants will face the sack unless they significantly boost their performance under reforms that sound the death knell for the career mandarin.
Too many new childcare places are being created with no thought given to how they can be sustained once public funds are exhausted, a senior MP said this week.
Government attempts to improve the health of the nation have been thwarted by the failure to set clear targets or to establish the cost-effectiveness of policies focusing on prevention, according to...
The independent sector's role in providing publicly funded health care increased this week with the announcement of five new fast-track surgery centres in the south of England.
