The best NHS trusts will be allowed to set up trading arms to sell services to organisations in the public and private sectors, Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced this week.
Nearly half of all council services that have had a Best Value inspection have been judged unlikely to improve or worse, according to the Audit Commission.
Years of financial mismanagement and political chaos have earned the London Borough of Hackney the dubious distinction of being the first local authority to face a central government takeover.
The chief executive of a Midlands trust has admitted that patient care suffered while managers put together one of the largest NHS Private Finance Initiative deals to date.
Heart and lung transplant patients who died at a south London hospital could have survived had they been treated elsewhere, an investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement said this week.
Plans to implement a new model for Private Finance Initiative projects in the NHS have been put on hold while the Department of Health carries out a review of its legality.
It is unlikely that large numbers of English NHS patients will be sent for treatment to other European Union countries in the near future, Public Finance has learned.
Local authorities fear they may be excluded from crucial decision-making after housing associations dominated a government programme to provide low-cost housing for more than 11,000 key public sector...
The Commission for Health Improvement has handed out its fiercest criticism yet of a hospital trust, declaring the Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust in Surrey as in urgent need of improvement.
Like the sound of English batsmen's stumps being shattered, the picture of students, especially women, celebrating ever-better A-level results has fast become one of the traditional images of our...
The prime minister is pushing the Department of Health to consider using health facilities run by French, German, Italian and Spanish health care providers in a radical move to cut NHS waiting lists...
First Minister Henry McLeish has risked confrontation with unions and councils by making his strongest commitment yet to the Blairite programme of public services modernisation through private sector...
The long-running dispute between private care homeowners and local authorities in Scotland has ended, following an agreement to set up an independent review group to examine funding.
The government's attempts to increase the number of successful adoptions by setting up a national register must not obscure the needs of children, the Association of Directors of Social Services...
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
Public sector workers are threatening industrial action in protest over Newcastle City Council's moves towards greater partnership with the private sector.
Campaigners have vowed to fight on in their battle to widen multiple sclerosis sufferers' access to beta interferons after reports suggested their availability would be limited in the NHS.
