The Ministry of Defence has forced one of the government's biggest IT partners to include a last-minute 'failure' clause in its bid for a £4bn contract, following a series of Whitehall computer...
The troubled Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has withdrawn its threat of legal action after a plea from the chair ousted by the regulator, Monitor.
A US-style model of care that aims to help asthma and arthritis sufferers stay out of hospital is to be rolled out across the health service this year.
Northern Ireland's district councils should be given a general power of competence, according to a report on the public health function in the province. The study was commissioned by the Department...
The government awarded a contract for five more private sector treatment centres this week, despite anecdotal evidence that patients are unhappy with the initiative.
Bradford's foundation trust was considering a legal challenge against the removal of its chair this week as relations with its regulator reached crisis point.
Councils were given an early Christmas present this week, when they were told they would no longer be responsible for finding £3bn in schools' and police authority savings called for in the Gershon...
The Scottish Executive has been criticised by an influential committee of MSPs for providing 'misleading' information when it claimed that its efficient government plan would save £1.7bn over the...
The irony of Dame Janet Smith's fifth report from her long-running Harold Shipman inquiry, which last week recommended a comprehensive overhaul of the General Medical Council, is that it has little...
Comprehensive Performance Assessments will scrutinise councils' financial management much more rigorously from 2005 but the number of inspections will be slashed by two-thirds.
NHS trusts need to spend more of their budget on cleaning services, ministers said this week after it emerged that fewer than half of hospitals in England have good standards of cleanliness.
Incapacity benefit needs to be replaced with a new system of support that encourages people to return to the workforce, according to a centre-Left think-tank.
All children's services, from playgroups to prisons, are to be subject to a radical joint inspection regime under proposals announced by Ofsted this week.
The Gershon efficiency review will contribute to growth of almost 50% in the UK public sector outsourcing market over the next three years, it was predicted this week.
The new NHS payment-by-results hospital funding system should be used in mental health care but its introduction must be gradual, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health said this week.
The CBI has attacked the 'confusing and vague' plans drawn up by Whitehall departments to meet the £21.5bn Gershon efficiency drive and warned of 'serious concerns' that it may fail.
The replacement for NHS star ratings in England will give patients a 'richer picture' of trusts' strengths and weaknesses and include a wider assessment of their financial position, the Healthcare...
The head of a powerful construction consortium has warned the Office of Government Commerce that plans to reform the Private Finance Initiative are flawed.
Sixteen 'arm's-length' NHS bodies, including those concerned with fraud, pensions and estate management, will cease to function next year, it emerged this week.
Ministers must develop an effective strategy to deal with international prisoners after a new study showed record numbers are detained in UK jails, an influential pressure group has warned.
NHS foundation trusts are lobbying ministers to be allowed to bid for the next wave of private sector health care contracts, the Healthcare Financial Management Association conference heard last week.
Northern Ireland's public bodies are facing a growing financial crisis with all of the province's five education and library boards and some health trusts looking at large deficits unless they are...
