The NHS is looking at extending the choice of care and treatment to community level. But primary care trusts will have to reconfigure their services in a radical way if patients are to be offered...
A King's Fund report has said that the postcode lottery for patients with serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease persists, in spite of attempts to address it.
Thousands of long-term jobseekers will be 'parked' on benefits under the government's £2bn Flexible New Deal employment policy, the Social Market Foundation has warned
An expert panel on NHS change has insisted its decision to back the reduction of services at two hospitals will lead to 'high-quality' local health services
Prison officers have threatened to take strike action after it emerged that a computer disk containing the details of 5,000 justice staff had been lost by government IT contractor EDS. Justice...
A Public Accounts Committee attack on the management of Private Finance Initiative projects has sparked more opposition to the schemes from unions and doctors' leaders.
Will the new diplomas keep more young people at school and improve general skills levels or will their jack-of-all-trades nature prove unpopular with students, schools and employers?
An internal report has produced a damning indictment of Cardiff Council children's services, which are likely to miss all but two of 20 main performance targets for 2008/09.
The performance of health boards in providing day surgery varies widely across Scotland, although the service has improved during the past decade, an Audit Scotland survey has found.
MPs have called for a shake-up of the 'outdated' system of benefits for the millions of carers who look after elderly or disabled relatives or friends.
Former Local Government Association chair Lord Bruce-Lockhart has died of cancer at the age of 66. A former leader of Kent County Council, Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was LGA chair from 2004 to 2007, where...
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has finally authorised the use of a drug that could prevent thousands of people from going blind.
The Scottish Government is to publish a national plan to improve services for the terminally ill, following an Audit Scotland report that calls for a more consistent approach to palliative care.
The huge number of gleaming new hospitals are a testament to the success of the Private Finance Initiative. But can the policy survive now that it is no longer the only game in town? Mark Hellowell...
The head of the new social housing regulatory body talks to Neil Merrick about how he intends to fundamentally challenge the way that housing associations operate
Targets get a bad press. When the subject comes up on the Today programme, John Humphrys can barely suppress a snarl. Hardly a day goes by without some professional body or senior public official...
Legal services provided to health bodies in Northern Ireland are being brought in-house as part of the fallout from a massive fraud committed by a firm of solicitors against the Department of Health...
An Audit Commission study revealing significant levels of error in the coding that underpins the payment-by-results system should be a call to action for both providers and commissioners, NHS leaders...
Voluntary organisations can get to people and places that other service providers struggle to reach. Or can they? The government thinks so but the public administration select committee is not so...
