The chief executive of a Midlands trust has admitted that patient care suffered while managers put together one of the largest NHS Private Finance Initiative deals to date.
Heart and lung transplant patients who died at a south London hospital could have survived had they been treated elsewhere, an investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement said this week.
Local authorities could be faced with bills of millions of pounds to clear up old landfill sites, following a recent report in the British Medical Journal which suggested a link between birth defects...
Plans to implement a new model for Private Finance Initiative projects in the NHS have been put on hold while the Department of Health carries out a review of its legality.
It is unlikely that large numbers of English NHS patients will be sent for treatment to other European Union countries in the near future, Public Finance has learned.
Local authorities fear they may be excluded from crucial decision-making after housing associations dominated a government programme to provide low-cost housing for more than 11,000 key public sector...
The Whitehall watchdog, the Commons Committee on Standards in Public Life, is considering imposing stiffer codes of conduct for ministers and special advisers.
Scottish local authorities face a major reorganisation of backroom functions such as payroll and council tax collection as ministers increase the pressure for more joined-up work between councils.
Prime Minister Tony Blair will step into the lions' den next week when he delivers an address to the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress in Brighton.
Public sector spending on IT is set to soar by 13% per annum for each of the next two years, according to a survey from Kew Associates and Computer Weekly magazine. Total spend by the public sector...
The government should plug the nursing recruitment gap rather than spend increasing amounts of money on temporary staff, the Royal College of Nursing argued this week.
The long-running dispute between private care homeowners and local authorities in Scotland has ended, following an agreement to set up an independent review group to examine funding.
The prime minister is pushing the Department of Health to consider using health facilities run by French, German, Italian and Spanish health care providers in a radical move to cut NHS waiting lists...
The Liberal Democrats are to launch an autumn attack on the Private Finance Initiative in an attempt to expose the 'real' costs of the controversial schemes.
First Minister Henry McLeish has risked confrontation with unions and councils by making his strongest commitment yet to the Blairite programme of public services modernisation through private sector...
The government's attempts to increase the number of successful adoptions by setting up a national register must not obscure the needs of children, the Association of Directors of Social Services...
Dame Helena Shovelton's annus horribilis came full circle this week when the government announced it would not re-employ her as chair of the Audit Commission.
Campaigners have vowed to fight on in their battle to widen multiple sclerosis sufferers' access to beta interferons after reports suggested their availability would be limited in the NHS.
The leader of Birmingham City Council fears ministers may have to impose a mayoral referendum on the city to sidestep continual opposition by councillors.
Sweeping reforms to the body that regulates doctors moved a step closer last week as the General Medical Council backed proposals to give a greater role to lay people.
