Sixty-six MPs have signed a parliamentary motion urging Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to extend last week's surprise deal on unfunded public sector pensions to local government.
Pay rises of at least 4.5% are needed next April or the NHS will haemorrhage doctors and fail to attract new recruits, the British Medical Association argued this week.
The Local Government Association has called for health and care funding to be merged into single pots to help pay for joined-up services between primary care trusts and local authorities.
Northern Ireland is to follow the example of the Republic of Ireland and Scotland by banning smoking in all workplaces and enclosed public spaces from April 2007.
There is no evidence for the government's claim that construction projects built under the Private Finance Initiative are better value for money than conventional procurement, a report for the public...
Managers in the public sector came under fire from a leading economist at the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers annual conference this week.
The creation of 'super-councils' to run all public services is among radical options being considered by the Scottish Executive's review of governance.
Government departments could still be forced to reduce entitlements for new public sector staff to meet its £13bn savings target across the sector despite this week's surprise deal on the pension...
A union representing NHS managers has called for guarantees that there will be no compulsory redundancies as ambulance trusts, strategic health authorities and primary care trusts are reorganised.
Whitehall departments are teaming up with government agencies and the private sector to launch a huge data-matching exercise designed to identify benefit fraudsters, tax cheats and absent parents.
Sunday is a day of rest and dread if you run a public body. For, come Monday, you know you have to run a gauntlet of inspectors, auditors, MPs and others who all have something to say about your...
Civil servants need to get out more and they are. Now middle managers are going to the private sector while its high flyers join Whitehall. Maria McHale meets the change-makers
It's the biggest shake-up in social care for 30 years, with seamless children's services at its core. But already boundary disputes and rows about funding are spoiling the party
Care commissioners and providers need to do more to stop the abuse of elderly people rather than blaming its occurrence on lack of resources, a conference organised by the Commission for Social Care...
The government failed to act on warnings that payment by results could plunge NHS trusts into financial chaos, despite being told of the risks by the Audit Commission more than a year ago.
The private sector will carry out more than 18% of operations to NHS patients by 2008, a report by the authoritative health market analysts Laing & Buisson has estimated.
Private Finance Initiative credits worth £125m awarded this week will provide incentives for working with the voluntary, health and private sectors, care services minister Liam Byrne has told Public...
A future Conservative government should match Margaret Thatcher's 'enterprise revolution' in industry, with a 'social enterprise revolution' in the public services, shadow health secretary Andrew...
The protracted dispute over the refusal by private firms to offer the Agenda for Change pay deal to employees working in the NHS will finally be resolved this week after the government agreed to fund...
The public sector could employ an additional 5,700 doctors, 12,800 nurses or 9,100 police officers annually with the money it loses through two forms of benefit fraud.
