The high-level task force charged with slashing town hall red tape will deliver its recommendations for the Department for Communities and Local Government by December, Michael Frater has told...
Ambulance trusts wishing to make changes to their control room computer systems will have to seek approval from the Department of Health after the discovery that six trusts misreported their...
The chief executive of the Local Government Association tells Joseph McHugh about the push for greater autonomy and diversity in the provision of council services
Having been quick to judge the rest of the public sector, Whitehall now faces similar scrutiny. And it hasn't fared well. Colin Talbot looks at the impact of capability reviews and applies his own...
More than a quarter of acute NHS trusts now have greater freedom from Whitehall control, following the authorisation of eight new foundation trusts this week.
High levels of public spending are exacerbating regional economic disparities and leading to dependency on central government handouts in some areas, according to a free market think-tank, Reform.
The Department of Health is considering compensating social services departments for the increased burdens created by cuts to NHS services, Public Finance has learnt.
Councils are warning that they are being starved of vital resources to fund basic services because of the government's inability to produce accurate immigration figures.
The proposal to open NHS commissioning to private companies envisages that primary care trusts will be able to choose whether or not to use these services. But PCTs look likely to be pressed to do...
The voluntary sector and private providers face many of the same problems in dealing with the public sector. But they are capable as competitors and in alliances of greatly improving service...
The Department of Health's finance director Richard Douglas has admitted to MPs that the apparent sudden deterioration in the NHS's finances is a product of changes in accountancy practice.
The Department of Health has failed to prove that its policy of outsourcing half a million patients to private treatment centres provides value for the extra cost it entails, the Commons' health...
The city-regions agenda has been thrown into doubt after two of the chancellor's closest political allies this week revealed their 'deep scepticism' at its viability as a model.
What has a philosophy designed to revolutionise car production got to do with the public sector? Well, quite a lot, it turns out. Zoe Radnor and Paul Walley explain how 'lean thinking' is crossing...
The Department of Health should return part of the £504m deducted from the deficit-hit NHS under its application of the Resource Accounting and Budgeting regime, the Audit Commission has said.
The Department of Health has admitted that its payment by results hospital funding scheme has led to a deterioration in care for older people, has 'not worked' for specialist children's hospitals and...
Mental health trusts have been asked to curb their spending to help other parts of the NHS balance their books, according to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
