A long list of essential infrastructure projects is crying out for attention, but traditional funding sources are drying up. Mark Hellowell asks whether the new government agency Infrastructure UK...
NHS organisations are struggling to draw up plans for finance, contracted activity and the future shape of community services to meet severe deadlines imposed by the Department of Health
Five private companies are in the running to take over a debt-ridden Cambridgeshire hospital, with just one rival shortlisted from within the health service
Millions of pounds of funding for improving care for people with dementia is probably not being spent on relevant services, the National Audit Office has warned
MPs have called for minimum prices and higher taxes for alcohol, attacking government policy as being too influenced by the interests of drinks manufacturers and retailers
The nation’s ever-expanding fiscal gap was examined recently in a video debate organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers and chaired by Public Finance editor Mike Thatcher – and asks, is it time to face...
Health unions have indicated that they are open to the idea of NHS workers being given job guarantees in exchange for lower pay deals and workplace mobility
The past ten years have seen the economy go from boom to bust, and the public finances spiral out of control. Tony Travers relives a decade of war, terrorism and financial
collapse – and asks, is it...
The NHS in Scotland has improved its financial performance and met most of its national targets for patient and service improvement, a wide-ranging analysis by Audit Scotland has found
It’s supposed to be lighter touch but it is certainly tougher. The Audit Commission’s first area assessments were revealed this week – and put up on the Oneplace website for everyone to see. David...
MPs have called for urgent reforms to the health care regulation system after two highly rated NHS trusts were found to be failing to keep patients safe
