By loading responsibility for the bulk of spending cuts on to councils, the government has managed to spread the consequences far and wide. The result, says Tony Travers, is that everyone is fighting...
The government’s planned restructure of the NHS contains a variety of risks that could prevent the service from saving £20bn in the next three years, MPs have found.
The bitter war of words between local government and Scottish Parliament leaders about public finance reform has escalated sharply over plans to merge social care with health provision
Primary care trust finance departments are preparing to establish themselves as social enterprises in the face of widespread job losses, Public Finance has learnt.
The government’s shake-up of the NHS is creating huge uncertainty over the accountability of billions of pounds of public money and the future role of finance professionals in the sector, Public...
The NHS funding squeeze has begun to kick in, pushing hospital waiting times up to a three-year high, according to a report from the King’s Fund published today.
Health care providers and commissioners should be required to justify persistent and often inexplicable variations found in patient treatment, according to a leading think-tank.
Local government and third sector leaders have been named as members of the NHS Future Forum, which will lead the ‘listening exercise’ on health reforms.
The government’s health reforms have come under further attack with co-ordinated protests across England today and warnings of a ‘reality gap’ in the plans from NHS leaders.
NHS trusts have failed to procure high-value equipment efficiently, and must improve before hundreds of millions of pounds worth of machines become due for replacement.
For two decades the Private Finance Initiative has been the only game in town for financing public infrastructure. Now pressure is mounting for the private firms that have done so well out of it to...
Labour says the chancellor's 'Budget for growth' won't work, and he needs a Plan B. But where are the Opposition's own alternatives for the economy and public services? Liam Byrne talks exclusively...
GPs must work more closely with patients to 'navigate' them through the health service, using a wider range of more accurate data to do so, according to the King’s Fund
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 over the whole of last year, cutting the workforce to just under 6.2 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Final salary pension schemes in the public sector should end and a cap be put on the amount taxpayers contribute, according to Lord Hutton’s review of pensions, published today.
Skilled management will be needed to ensure the move to GP commissioning does not affect the quality of health and social care, the Nuffield Trust warned today
Private firms that provide public services in Scotland should be subject to Freedom of Information laws, according to the watchdog that oversees rules on disclosure
