The government has ‘taken its eye off the ball’ in helping the NHS to reduce health care-associated infections, according to the Public Accounts Committee
The controversy over MPs’ expenses has been passed to the new independent regulator after the public standards committee published its long-awaited report into the issue
Councils are still not being given reliable financial advice more than a year after the Icelandic banking collapse, according to the Commons communities and local government select committee
Finance Minister John Swinney has described as ‘baseless’ claims that he is intending to usurp the powers of Parliament over the abolition of quangos and other public bodies
The spending squeeze will hit new graduates hard, a think-tank has claimed, as figures show that more than half of UK graduates start their careers in the public sector
Much is expected of the Total Place initiative – ministers are hoping it will join up services while producing huge savings. Guy Clifton warns, however, that the consequences have not been properly...
The scale of the public sector deficit demands no-holds-barred solutions. So could Total Place – the latest weapon in the government’s armoury – help to lower costs without damaging vital services?...
A spate of job losses and a squeeze on pay and conditions have been stoking unrest across the public sector, ahead of the clampdown on spending expected in November’s Pre-Budget Report
Health and social care services are suffering because councils and NHS bodies are failing to pool resources effectively, the local government watchdog has said
NHS leaders have warned that the government might seek to squeeze health service spending by locking down the treatments price tariff for five years and clawing back surpluses
Government departments need to keep less money in private banks and use the Exchequer as their main banking provider, the National Audit Office has said
