Guidelines that could add significantly to the demand for and cost of diabetes services in England and Wales were issued this week by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
The government's drive for greater public involvement in the NHS is being hampered by primary care reorganisation and lack of funding, the King's Fund said this week.
Local government representatives have urged the government to tackle the 'grim' state of social care and fill the struggling service's £200m funding gap.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn was this week told to stop tampering with the structure of the NHS and ignoring his own department's ten-year strategy to give staff more time to deliver his much...
The row between Downing Street and the Whitehall establishment took a new turn this week when government sources claimed 'resentful' civil servants were trying to undermine the government.
Cannabis-based pain relief drugs could be approved for use in the NHS on prescription by 2004 or 2005 after the Department of Health this week included them in new remedies referred to the National...
A report released by Incomes Data Services has predicted that public employees' salaries will rise faster than that of their private sector counterparts during 2002.
An influential group of public sector leaders has thrown down the gauntlet to Tony Blair and demanded that he defend frontline workers from attacks on their professionalism.
The NHS must become a 'world-class employer' if it is to deliver the high levels of care demanded by patients, Prime Minister Tony Blair said this week.
The appointment of Mike Tomlinson to replace the combative Chris Woodhead as chief inspector of schools and head of Ofsted has brought a welcome change of tone, MPs have said.
The health service must change the way it measures performance if it is to make a success of franchising arrangements for failing trusts, the NHS Confederation has warned.
Unison this week raised 'serious concerns' over the potential scope for public sector employers to push experienced staff into early retirement to save money on pensions.
The government has given nurses renewed hope of higher wages and more flexible working hours after it revealed that the NHS had reached its target of recruiting an extra 20,000 nurses three years...
The NHS is investing in the healing power of poesy. The organisers of Poems for the Waiting Room hope to inject some humanity into the service by soothing patients with sonnets and displaying...
Wendy Thomson's Office of Public Service Reform is to carry out a review of the willingness of government departments to let councils enjoy the new autonomy Stephen Byers promised them in his recent...
A cash-strapped local authority has denied it is sending its senior managers on an awayday simply to indulge in yoga, meditation and water aerobics. Isle of Wight Council insists it is trying to...
Health Secretary Alan Milburn this week hammered home the prime minister's backing for NHS workers, claiming that staff, patients and the government were on the same side.
A backlash against audit and inspection may be gathering force. New studies just published in the US say league tables for hospitals and schools can push up spending while reducing quality of service...
The NHS Counter Fraud Service expects to have recovered £12m paid out in fake claims by the end of the financial year, the Department of Health has said.
Government officials are considering a fundamental reorganisation of police pensions after it was revealed that the total liability for English and Welsh forces may have leapt to £36bn.
Politicians should hand over the day-to-day running of the NHS to an arm's length corporation, according to a report from the health think-tank, the King's Fund.
