The Royal College of Nursing has welcomed the Liberal Democrats' manifesto promise to use higher taxes to recruit more nurses and give them a £1,000 pay rise.
The Private Finance Initiative this week emerged as an unlikely and crucial general election issue with the government's record on public spending being attacked on several fronts.
A leaked document from the Institute for Public Policy Research on the future relationship between public services and private contractors may foreshadow a total reorganisation of health, education...
Ideological differences between the main political parties on how to improve public services emerged this week as the general election campaign finally got under way.
Twenty-two of the poorest neighbourhoods in England have secured a total of more than £1bn in central government regeneration funding over the next ten years.
GPs are angry that much is evident. The actions of those who on May Day closed their surgeries to all but emergency cases led family doctors to be mentioned in the same breath as the militant anti-...
Doctors and managers backed Health Secretary Alan Milburn this week as he announced sweeping reforms to decentralise the NHS and cut at least £100m from the service's administration to plough back...
A cross-party committee of MPs has demanded urgent talks between the government and dentists' representatives to address the 'long-standing' problem of access to NHS dental services.
A picture of departmental conflict and policy incoherence emerges in last week's report on waste management from the Commons' environment select committee. The result, it implies, is that local...
The Liberal Democrats are once again relying on a pledge to add 1p to the basic rate of income tax to woo voters, promising to fund improvements in education and bridge the Budget deficit they claim...
Nearly one in five further education colleges is facing financial problems, despite £3bn being pumped into the sector by the government, according to an all-party committee of MPs.
Reports that the European Investment Bank is ready to inject £5bn into the government's ailing public-private partnership for the Tube were denied this week.
Staff across the public sector could be wasting thousands of working hours surfing the Internet for pornography, booking holidays or even managing their stocks and shares on-line, an exclusive survey...
The Scots have often thought of the English as ignorant and soon they may be right. Next year, Scots will have the legal right to know a lot more than the English about what their government is doing...
Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged that his government will 'power ahead' with its 'fundamental' shake-up of public services if Labour wins a second term in office.
