Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt will come under pressure to put together a financial rescue package for the NHS in Norfolk after government auditors confirmed that the local trust is paying over the...
The catering workforce in schools needs to be massively expanded if schoolchildren are to be given healthy and nutritious meals, Unison said this week.
Construction costs on the government's £25bn schools infrastructure programme could easily be cut to release more than £200m for frontline services, James Stewart has told Public Finance.
Tough new measures to combat health care-acquired infections such as MRSA should help staff do their job, not provide a new stick with which to beat them, the NHS Confederation said this week.
Unison has called on Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt to take urgent steps to combat violence against staff, patients and visitors in mental health inpatient units.
NHS staff who gain unauthorised access to patients' electronic records could be sacked, face criminal charges or be fined thousands of pounds, the Department of Health said this week.
The general election brought home to the government the country's desire for a return to local democracy. The LGA calls for this to be made a reality and its chair, Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart,...
One day soon, the British public are going to wake up and find that their prime minister has changed. But will they be able to tell the difference between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown? Tony Travers...
The first corporate manslaughter case against a council was thrown out because of the need to identify a 'controlling mind'. But there is no room for complacency, as a new law may shift the balance...
Dissenting NHS voices claim the drive to improve access times to GPs has compromised other areas of patient choice. Seamus Ward asks if primary care can deliver flexibility as well as speed
Labour's first two terms saw local government marginalised and under ever greater central control. So how can new minister David Miliband improve the central/local relationship? George Jones and John...
Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett has dismissed claims that the government's proposed welfare reform package could punish the genuinely sick or disabled by forcing them back to work.
Local government employers have proposed a radical overhaul of council sickness management, including reducing the length of time that staff can receive full pay while absent from work.
Ealing council has accepted defeat in its battle to overturn its 'weak' rating in the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, after the Audit Commission won a Court of Appeal ruling this week.
The body charged with overhauling the quality of school meals met for the first time this week to begin work on developing minimum nutritional standards.
NHS managers have hit back at suggestions that they should be held responsible for lapses in hospital hygiene that lead to higher rates of infections such as MRSA.
NHS organisations must show they are tackling health inequalities or risk receiving a lower performance rating, the Healthcare Commission said this week.
The prime minister has retained some familiar faces as the next phase of public sector reform gets under way. This will tackle pensions, choice and private provision. Karen Day assesses the tasks...
Immunisation of all children in the UK against the hepatitis B virus would be more cost-effective than treating the thousands of patients who carry the virus, the British Medical Association said...
