The health service is being urged to reduce its deficit next year, even if that means postponing initiatives and cutting other services, finance managers said this week.
Rural districts are likely to benefit hugely from radical changes in the way Scotland's 15 health boards are funded. But the new system is not likely to be implemented before 2001/02, it emerged this...
The Prescription Pricing Authority has suggested setting aside its prescription backlog, wiping out two months' data, as one way of getting future prescribing information to health authorities and...
The reputation of government executive agencies has been dealt another blow this week after auditor general Sir John Bourn accused the Courts Funds Office of financial mismanagement and losing track...
Alnwick District Council is facing a £5m compensation claim from supermarket giant Safeway after the High Court upheld Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's decision to scrap an out-of-town shopping...
The Housing Corporation has apologised to five housing associations for not warning them that they were to be publicly criticised over the size of their rent increases.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confirmed that local authorities will be able to introduce congestion charges, with the revenue ring-fenced for local transport schemes.
The top 25 equipment projects commissioned by the Ministry of Defence are expected to cost £2.8bn more than originally forecast and will enter service on average more than three and a half years late...
A scientific research council has been severely criticised by the Public Accounts Committee for a 'lack of management grip' in the implementation of a new computer system.
The Treasury will give financial backing to any Private Finance Initiative scheme that ends up on the public sector balance sheet because of new accounting rules, Public Finance has learned.
Changes to Britain's phone system which could end up costing councils hundreds of thousands of pounds were met this week with a collective shrug of the shoulders from the public sector.
The government has admitted that half this year's funding increase for education will be swallowed up by the teachers' pay rise, leaving much less than expected for other improvements.
Housing may be ignored by Labour as the government sets spending targets for a second term in office, prospective mayor of London Ken Livingstone warned this week.
Critics of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) have leapt on a National Audit Office report criticising the first major NHS hospital built under the policy.
The role of negotiating grants to the new Scottish assembly has been given to John Reid, who impressed Number 10 when transport minister by facing down protesting lorry-drivers angered by increases...
The capital's fire engines will be supplied and managed by the private sector for the first 20 years of the next century, following this week's announcement of a £45m Private Finance Initiative deal...
