Doctors and other health professionals will be given control of almost £65bn of English NHS spending from next year if the government’s controversial reforms go ahead, according to Department for...
As head of the Government Finance Profession, Richard Douglas is overseeing big changes to Whitehall’s financial management. He tells PF how he combines that with his day job at the Department of...
The 710,000 public sector job losses now expected by 2017 will hit the devolved nations and the Northeast hardest, the Trades Union Congress said today.
The NHS could save money and services by ensuring more efficient practices, such as cutting the time patients spend in hospital and increasing day surgery, are adopted across the board, according to...
The government has not done enough to address concerns that the Private Finance Initiative is being used to keep the cost of major infrastructure projects off its balance sheet, the Commons’ Treasury...
Trade union Unite has today refused to sign up to the government’s reform plan for the NHS pension scheme, saying that the offer late last year was not satisfactory.
NHS trusts have made a ‘strong start’ to the production of annual quality accounts, but need to link the process to their wider improvement work, auditors have concluded.
Care services minister Paul Burstow has responded to claims of a growing social care crisis by stressing that reform is an urgent priority for the government.
Unions have accused the government of resorting to ‘bullying tactics’ in the dispute over public sector pension reforms after two more government departments published planned staff contribution...
