Scottish patients have the UK's shortest waiting times for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease, according to the latest government statistics.
Public services in Scotland are delivered as part of a patchwork operation that is starting to fray. Minister Tom McCabe is stitching together a reform package that might begin with a reorganisation...
Beefing up city and county regions might paradoxically be the most effective way of putting the local into 'new localism' in the twenty-first century, argues Gerry Stoker
Risk registers are becoming ever-more numerous and elaborate, but they are not worth the Word documents they are printed on if they fail to engage with the everyday business of their organisation
Having overseen the Department of Health's 'big bang' NHS policies, Andy McKeon now scrutinises their impact from an Audit Commission standpoint. Karen Day spoke to him
Neighbourhood boards are the latest big idea for getting the public to improve the services they use. But will this US invention work here, asks Chris Skelcher
If the forthcoming social care green paper avoids spelling out the cost of long-term care for older people, Sir Derek Wanless's review is likely to be less coy, argues Paul Gosling
The way public services are contracted and delivered could be transformed if an innovative funding model is rolled out across the country, charities minister Fiona Mactaggart said this week.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott urged Labour councillors to unite behind the party and 'stop talking and scribbling' in the run-up to the general and county council elections.
The National Audit Office is considering launching an inquiry into the funding of GP out-of-hours care after it was claimed that cuts were compromising the quality of the service.
Pay parity in the health service was thrown into the spotlight this week with chief executives' salaries breaching the £200,000 mark for the first time as Unison entered final negotiations on a...
Local government unions look likely to press ahead with ballots for industrial action over controversial new pension regulations, despite last-minute talks with ministers to avert politically...
Electronic Data Systems, one of Whitehall's largest IT contractors, has eased fears about its financial health by reporting a profit but the government has revealed it has investigated the company'...
Directors of the multibillion pound NHS information technology project have vowed to win over sceptical doctors whose declining support could turn the scheme into a white elephant.
The Public Accounts Committee criticised the Home Office this week for allowing an 'unhealthy' backlog of asylum applications to build up, as Labour and Conservatives launched a pre-election war of...
The government's push on preventative health will continue to take a back seat in the NHS as targets and incentives focus on more 'vote-winning' acute care, a think-tank warned this week.
Health Secretary John Reid put his commitment to improving public health into action this week by diverting more NHS cash into the most deprived areas of England.
The Wanless franchise keeps on growing. Not content with producing two influential reports on future NHS funding and public health, the former NatWest chief executive this week announced he is...
