The cost of government responses to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland topped £6bn as both Stormont and Westminster worked to fight the health and economic crises caused by the virus.
Covid-19 led to UK healthcare spending reaching £269bn in 2020, a fifth higher than the previous year’s figure, according to Office for National Statistics data.
The health service and local government both need long-term financial sustainability if the government is to successfully respond to the next national emergency, the National Audit Office has...
As Covid-19 vaccination rolls out and employees begin returning to the office, public sector leaders will face a new challenge – successfully reconnecting their temporarily disparate teams.
The procurement challenges ushered in by Covid-19 will not go away even if lower infection rates allow society to get back to some degree of normality, says Mohamed Hans.
Adult social care services will receive £341m to continue to keep vulnerable people safe from Covid-19 even as restrictions begin to ease and the vaccine rollout continues.
Councils still face a funding gap of more than £600m this financial year due to Covid-19, despite huge government support for the sector, the National Audit Office has found.
Rishi Sunak has once again announced billions of pounds of spending as the government attempts to tackle the economic crisis caused by Covid-19, but has drawn criticism for failing to adequately...
Covid-19 has left councils more than £1bn short of their expected council tax revenues. But what explains the wide variation among collection levels between different authorities? Kate Ogden, local...
Local authority finance officers joined a recent webinar hosted by TechnologyOne and CIPFA to assess the role of digital technology adoption in helping councils respond to Covid-19.
The UK’s death toll from Covid-19 this week reached 100,000. The grim milestone is a legacy of underfunding for health and care services, says Anita Charlesworth, director of research and REAL Centre...
Increased funding for the NHS and Department of Health & Social Care is welcome, but is not enough to cover the impact of Covid-19 or transformation plans, explains NHS Providers policy adviser...
At the end of a traumatic year, PF asks local government figures whether government has done enough to shield the sector from the financial impact of Covid-19.
The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to have a long-lasting impact on governance and financial management in public bodies – Sarah Sheen looks at the issues.
The UK government has spent an additional £10bn on personal protective equipment this year, as a result of “inadequate stockpiling”, according to the National Audit Office.
Monetary policy will attempt to combat long-term scarring to UK GDP from Covid-19 forecast at £40bn a year, according to a deputy governor of the Bank of England.
The government failed to meet standards of transparency on its emergency Covid-19 procurement, according to an investigation by the National Audit Office.
Almost two-thirds of council asset managers think their organisation will be able to reduce office floorspace by more than a quarter when the Covid-19 pandemic is over.
