Gordon Brown has vigorously rejected suggestions that the government's performance targets are hindering rather than helping efforts to improve public services.
Four NHS chief executives have resigned after a damning report found their Scottish region was riddled with infighting and a lack of financial understanding.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn has announced two measures to devolve power to frontline NHS organisations proposals to establish foundation trusts, and allocations to primary care trusts from April...
Northern Ireland's largest programme of public sector infrastructure rebuilding was announced on December 11 by acting finance minister Ian Pearson in the province's annual Budget.
NHS Plan recruitment targets are under threat because one in seven health service workers could retire in the next five years, the King's Fund warned this week.
A Left-leaning think-tank is calling for greater scrutiny of Private Finance Initiative schemes entered into by central and local government, after it revealed that only 6% of the contracts have had...
Sir Jeremy Beecham has voiced doubts about the quality of some of the inspections carried out for the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, just one week before the results are unveiled.
CBI focuses on needs of 'Joe Public'
Putting the consumer first was the focus of a new approach to public-private partnerships enshrined in the Confederation of British Industry's much-heralded '...
NHS hospitals in the north of England provide better care for their patients than their counterparts in the south, according to the health service's own watchdog.
The reorganisation of health services in Wales will improve co-operation between the NHS and councils, the Welsh Assembly's minister for health and social services claimed this week.
The Comprehensive Performance Assessment is the 'model of the future' for inspecting and improving public services, the new chair of the Audit Commission has said.
The NHS is facing a 'worrying' shortage of GPs following an increase in the number of vacancies over the last year, a doctors' leader warned this week.
NHS trusts that are developing Private Finance Initiative projects should not place 'undue emphasis' on demonstrating savings against a Treasury-funded project, the National Audit Office said this...
England's pensioners missed out on almost £1.9bn last year, largely because the government failed to inform them of the range of benefits available, according to the National Audit Office.
It was sheer luck that no patient suffered serious illness as a result of serious failings at Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust, a health watchdog has found.
The Improvement and Development Agency has appointed the colourful and often controversial chief executive of Camden, Steve Bundred, as its new executive director.
