Public servants could co-ordinate a fresh wave of strikes to coincide with the Queen's Speech, as opposition to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's 2% pay cap intensified following heated exchanges at the...
The annual costs to the NHS of Private Finance Initiative schemes will soar fivefold from £470m to £2.3bn over the next eight years and could damage services, Edinburgh University researchers claim.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week launched an ambitious plan to improve health services across developing countries by making better use of international aid but he committed no extra UK...
There has been a lack of progress in helping people with mental health problems access benefits and find work, according to research published this week.
Public sector employees will need to accept changes in their jobs and responsibilities as part of plans to share services, Scottish finance and management officers have been told.
The expansion of Wales' public sector is turning the principality into one of the dynamic 'knowledge economies' driving UK growth, a report by the Work Foundation has concluded.
& nothing gained. Or so say the growing army of private equity investors in public services and assets. Paul Gosling explores the pros and cons of such partnerships for the public sector
Last month, the government approved nine new unitary authorities. There is one problem though its powers to do this are languishing in a Bill before Parliament, and so one council has challenged...
Residents' satisfaction with services and value for money should be the yardsticks against which local authorities are measured when Comprehensive Area Assessments are introduced in 2009, according...
Do Whitehall figures understate the socioeconomic impact of immigration? More precise local-level monitoring and checks on outward migration will give an answer, the agencies involved say
Northern Ireland's hospitals spend £31m more a year than they need to, compared with the unit costs of their English NHS equivalents, according to reviews conducted for Northern Ireland's Department...
Local government and health unions have edged closer to pay deals that would breach the Treasury's 2% limit but this week's illegal strikes by prison officers have highlighted the public sector's...
Scotland's public sector watchdog has criticised the NHS and councils over a lack of information about the costs of providing care for people with long-term conditions.
MPs and peers have called for a thorough reform of NHS regulations, equality guidance and human rights law to counter the abuse of older people in hospitals and care homes.
NHS foundation trusts have been accused of circumventing the cap Parliament imposed on their private patient work by establishing arm's-length bodies whose income does not show up in their accounts.
Northern Ireland's Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety is to clamp down on the fraudulent use of its health service by Irish Republic residents.
The scaling down of Public Service Agreements has been heralded as emblematic of a less centralist approach to performance management. But details of the new delivery agreements suggest otherwise
New Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has thrown down the gauntlet in a green paper designed to get the long-term unemployed into jobs. But, as Mark Conrad reports, there are some tricky battles...
