Plans to fine councils deemed responsible for causing bed blocking in hospitals have been attacked as 'costly, unworkable and flawed' by the Local Government Association.
Over the past year public services have become by default a key issue for the Liberal Democrats. Internal rows and specialist groups have dominated its policy-making.
SNP leader John Swinney has accused the Scottish Executive of indulging in 'Enron-style accounting' in its presentation of Scotland's cut of July's Spending Review.
The head of corporate performance at the London Borough of Ealing has criticised the government for its inability to 'join up and join in' and for the contradictory messages sent out by the various...
The NHS in England is to get a further £10m to develop intensive care facilities for critically ill children, health minister Jacqui Smith announced this week.
Local authority leaders are lobbying to keep child protection services firmly in the grip of local communities and councils, rather than under a centrally controlled child protection agency.
The leader of Britain's trades union movement this week stepped up the campaign to halt the privatisation of public services, when he warned Tony Blair not to 'charge ahead' with reforms 'assuming he...
The row over health care rationing escalated this week after opposition MPs said the formation of a 'citizens' council' to inform NHS drug and treatment practices was a 'sham'.
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Parliamentarians and patients' bodies have blasted NHS managers for failing to make modifications to dangerous anaesthetic machines.
Health minister David Lammy this week announced that 139...
Government plans to exempt existing care homes from controversial environmental standards could lead to a two-tier system of care for older people, claim social services chiefs.
Under the...
Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council is waiting to learn if the inquiry by police and health officials into the outbreak of legionnaires' disease in the Cumbrian town will point the finger of blame at...
'More flexible' methods of paying dentists for NHS treatment will be tested as part of a two-year pilot scheme that could overhaul health service dentistry, the government said this week.
With a US-led assault on Iraq widely predicted for later this year, a report published this week reveals that the UK's armed forces may be unprepared for the conditions they would experience if the...
An end to the protracted negotiations on the new NHS pay structure may be in sight this week after an improved offer persuaded the Royal College of Nursing to stay in the talks.