Northern Ireland's ambulance workers held an emergency meeting this week to consider strike action in protest at continuing attacks after a brick was thrown into an ambulance, injuring two paramedics.
The Local Government Association has attacked the recent local government finance settlement for ignoring the increased demands being made on councils over personal social services.
The NHS has two years to regain public confidence or its principles of a tax-funded, equitable service may be lost for good, health minister Lord Hunt said last week.
The government's decision to give the English NHS fewer national targets and allow patients more choice over where they are treated has been welcomed by doctors and managers.
Increasing patient expectations will provide the greatest impetus for the NHS to improve, Neil McKay, NHS chief operations officer told the HFMA conference.
Cancer services have improved in England and Wales but the quality of care depends on where patients live and the type of cancer they have, a report from the Commission for Health Improvement and the...
Chancellor Gordon Brown's scenario for revitalised health spending including an instant £1bn boost was designed to bring certainty and clarity to the argument over funding.
Almost two-thirds of public sector organisations fear they will be unable to afford the next round of pay increases, according to Public Finance 's latest survey.
Private companies must be allowed to absorb swathes of the public sector if service improvements are to be achieved, a former Treasury mandarin has claimed.
NHS managers are flocking to unions in the wake of growing concerns that they are being made unnecessary 'scapegoats' for failures in health, according to the FDA.
English councils are set to receive an increase of around 7% in grant when ministers unveil the provisional 2002/03 finance settlement next week, Public Finance can reveal.
Wendy Thomson, head of the Office for Public Service Reform in the Cabinet Office, has thrown her weight behind the idea of a genuine and extensive transfer of powers to local service deliverers, in...
Northern Ireland's health service has been thrown into crisis by a cash shortage, according to Dr Joe Hendron, chair of the Assembly's health committee.
As the British government muses over the future of local democracy, a cluster of countries is grappling with the gargantuan task of creating local government in a bid to join the European Union.
Unison members at Westminster City Council have threatened to walk out over plans for a £1bn outsourcing contract intended to improve customer services.
The government's micro-management of the NHS is frustrating innovation and preventing managers improving the service to patients, the NHS Confederation claimed this week.
A decision to give free nursing care to all nursing home residents in Wales will put pressure on the government to simplify care funding in England, Help the Aged said this week.
The Local Government Association has declared its 'emphatic' opposition to any attempt by the government to ring-fence local authorities' education budgets.
