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...
A £15m rescue fund is being set up to help black and minority ethnic (BME) housing associations that face serious financial problems because of rent restructuring.
Hospitals across England are responding to the introduction of NHS performance ratings by 'raising their game', although there is still room for improvement, Health Secretary Alan Milburn said this...
MPs have slated the government for reneging on its promise to liberate councils from Whitehall control and demanded a 'major reappraisal' of the draft bill intended to deliver new freedoms.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is to spend the summer battling the rest of Whitehall for a reduction in use of ringfenced grants to councils, now totalling £10bn.
A cross-party report has called for the government to support 'pioneering local initiatives' as well as more realistic funding to secure the future of social care.
The government has moved to tackle bed-blocking with a series of measures designed to make social services more responsive, increase the number of available care home beds and allow more old people...
District Audit and Inspection Service functions are to be integrated for the first time under a shake-up of internal structures unveiled by the Audit Commission this week.
The Department of Health has for the first time agreed to improve the quality of care offered by the NHS in return for the billions of pounds being poured in by the Treasury over the next five years...
Relations between central and local government need to be radically transformed and much of Whitehall's power relinquished to town halls, Iain Duncan Smith has told local government leaders.
GP practices are facing 'dire' recruitment problems and are struggling to achieve the government's modernisation agenda, according to British Medical Association GP leader Dr John Chisholm.
The Department of Health should adopt a more proactive role when the National Institute for Clinical Excellence issues recommendations on drugs or treatments, MPs said this week.
The majority of the public believe moves to allow the private and voluntary sectors as well as overseas operators to treat NHS patients will improve standards of care, according to a Mori poll for...
GPs have urged the Department of Health to implement immediately proposals that would slash their paperwork and enable them to see another 100 patients each per year.
'We're doing our bit, the Audit Commission is doing its bit, now you do your bit,' is the message that will be sent to ministers from the Local Government Association conference next week.
Financial control of a flagship health service partnership in Bedfordshire was so poor that the scheme had effectively collapsed within months, a District Audit report has found.
