Senior parliamentary watchdogs this week launched a broadside at the Labour government, criticising ministers for continually blocking Commons committees from cross-examining senior policy advisers...
Ministers should introduce local health czars and revamp GP surgeries as part of a programme of public health improvement, the King's Fund said this week.
Unnecessary impositions and over-zealous regulation by government agencies will be the focus of attempts to eradicate the 'regulatory creep' burdening Britain's public sector, according to the man...
Gordon Brown threw down the gauntlet to the Conservatives this week when he used his Budget statement to promise substantial extra investment in key public services well into the next Parliament.
Chancellor Gordon Brown faces tough choices over public spending and may have to cut investment in key services to balance the Treasury's books, according to an influential think-tank.
The Conservative Party's review of waste and bureaucracy in the public services has already identified savings 'significantly in excess' of the £35bn-a-year target set, Oliver Letwin has told Public...
The health service and EDS are to take their differences to mediation after it emerged that the IT outsourcing company was seeking compensation for the cancellation of its e-mail contract.
Primary care trusts are redesigning services to improve access to local NHS treatment, but implementation is patchy and is being hampered by a lack of management capacity, the Audit Commission said...
NHS hospitals are ill-prepared for the biggest change in junior doctors' working hours in the past ten years, the British Medical Association warned this week.
When the NHS was established in 1948, Nye Bevan believed its effect on the nation's health would be so profound that future governments would not have to increase its budget greatly.
Watchdog MPs have called on the government to remedy a bizarre situation in which MPs asking official Parliamentary Questions have less chance of extracting information from Whitehall departments...
The results of a three-month consultation on the best ways to prevent illness will be used to inform a public health white paper and affect NHS spending priorities between 2005 and 2008.
One in five civil servants will face the sack unless they significantly boost their performance under reforms that sound the death knell for the career mandarin.
Government attempts to improve the health of the nation have been thwarted by the failure to set clear targets or to establish the cost-effectiveness of policies focusing on prevention, according to...
Battle lines are being drawn across the public services after the interim conclusions of the Treasury's wide-ranging efficiency review, calling for swingeing civil service job cuts and annual savings...
The independent sector's role in providing publicly funded health care increased this week with the announcement of five new fast-track surgery centres in the south of England.
The prison population in England and Wales reached an all-time high this week pushing the Prison Service close to 'unsafe' levels and a full-blown crisis, experts warned.
