Auditors this week questioned the financial stability of up to 60% of NHS local delivery plans drawn up by health agencies throwing the sector's ability to deliver the government's flagship NHS...
Health Secretary John Reid this week sought to give fresh impetus to the independent sector treatment initiative with the announcement of the first major contracts for UK-based providers.
The government is to spend £16m on building four specialist units to separate teenage girl prisoners from adults, Home Secretary David Blunkett has announced.
US outsourcing giant EDS has confirmed it has pulled out of bidding to become a partner in the NHS Shared Financial Services, but insisted it was still committed to working with other parts of the...
Spending on economic development in Scotland has fallen as a share of the total Scottish budget in the period since devolution, a research report has disclosed.
More than 100 defunct NHS sites across England are to be sold to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as part of a regeneration deal estimated to be worth £400m.
Social landlords need £8.4bn to be pumped into affordable housing during the next three years so they can build 140,000 new homes by 2008, the chancellor was told this week.
Sir Andrew Turnbull, the head of the civil service, has rejected MPs' accusations of 'financial mismanagement' at the Cabinet Office following concerns raised by the National Audit Office.
The concept of 'choice' must be extended across Britain's public services to ensure the government's radical reforms are successful, according to leading thinkers from the two main parties.
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...
The Welsh Assembly government will find it difficult to forge ahead with the proposals for increased autonomy in the long-awaited Richard Commission Report should it choose to back the plans.
The Scottish Executive is on course to meet the majority of targets set out in its draft budget for 2004/05, Finance and Public Services Minister Andy Kerr announced this week.
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.
Gordon Brown's pledge to prune Whitehall's army of Sir Humphreys and slash billions of pounds from the government's annual spending bill ensured that these issues dominated last week's post-Budget...
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...
