Safeguards to protect NHS patients in Scotland are 'more robust and coherent' than at any time in the history of the service, a public sector watchdog has concluded.
Scotland's efficiency savings could have been £239m higher if the Executive had applied the equivalent targets set for Whitehall, Professor Arthur Midwinter, the Scottish Parliament's finance adviser...
Scotland's deputy finance minister, Tavish Scott, has defended the Executive's civil service relocation policy following a setback that forced it to drop plans to move a quango from Edinburgh.
The chief executive of NHS 24 in Scotland has apologised to patients following publication of an inquiry report strongly criticising the service over a series of management failures.
Scotland's 32 councils are generally looking after their finances well but have been slow to develop systematic performance management arrangements, Audit Scotland has told MSPs.
The Scottish Executive's claim that spending on frontline services will grow by 5% as a result of efficiency savings has been challenged by the Holyrood Parliament's finance adviser.
The chair of the Charity Commission turned down Rada for a career in social policy. But the theatre's loss has been the voluntary sector's gain, writes Vivienne Russell
A Scottish council is set to become the subject of one of the most critical reports of a local authority's performance ever produced by the public spending watchdog, the Accounts Commission.
English local authorities are targeting adult social services and corporate activities in their drive to meet the £6.45bn efficiency target set by Sir Peter Gershon, a study has found.
Finance Minister Tom McCabe has called on critics of public-private partnership projects in Scotland to leave preconceived ideas behind and start looking for new solutions to project delivery.
The cost of clinical waste disposal by NHS hospitals in Scotland could be reduced by £1.3m if the waste was handled properly, Audit Scotland has claimed.
As universities in England look forward to extra income from top-up fees next year, those in the rest of the UK face both an influx of English students and an academic brain drain as a result....
The coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats in Scotland might be in jeopardy following the surprise announcement by LibDem leader Jim Wallace, who is also deputy first minister, that he is...
The Scottish Executive could have made extra savings of £400m if it had followed the Gershon formula for England and Wales, a leading member of an influential Holyrood committee claimed this week.
One of Scotland's biggest and most controversial Private Finance Initiative projects, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, is embroiled in a row over £30m in extra payments demanded by the operating...
The cost of employing agency nurses and other temporary staff has fallen for the first time in recent years, according to a leading independent health care analyst.
Scottish local authorities are fuming at First Minister Jack McConnell's hint that a report on the future of the council tax might be delayed until after the 2007 Holyrood elections.
Increased rights for the homeless in Scotland have led to a flood of applications, with one in every 100 Scots seeking accommodation, it was disclosed this week.
The new terminal at Heathrow airport is on track and on budget. Christian Wolmar believes there are vital lessons for the public sector to learn from BAA's decision to shoulder the risks itself
