With Lord Darzi's review pushing for greater integration of health and social care, the appointment of a joint finance director for Kingston's council and primary care trust is being closely watched
Labour is giving its flagship Building Schools for the Future programme a makeover after criticisms of slow procurement, inner-city bias and poor building design
London's £16bn Crossrail project seemed finally to have left its troubled past behind when Gordon Brown approved it last year. But as the economic crisis worsens, doubts are growing and the scheme...
The NHS is looking at extending the choice of care and treatment to community level. But primary care trusts will have to reconfigure their services in a radical way if patients are to be offered...
A King's Fund report has said that the postcode lottery for patients with serious illnesses such as cancer and heart disease persists, in spite of attempts to address it.
Government plans to allow local authorities to opt out of the housing finance system have been dismissed as unworkable. Instead, the Chartered Institute of Housing is urging the government to scrap...
An expert panel on NHS change has insisted its decision to back the reduction of services at two hospitals will lead to 'high-quality' local health services
The local income tax planned by the Scottish Government is not a local tax but a national levy, which would result in councils becoming the agents of central government, a leading public sector...
Bradford councillor Margaret Eaton was set to be confirmed as the first woman to chair the Local Government Association this week, after winning the Conservative Party nomination.
Prison officers have threatened to take strike action after it emerged that a computer disk containing the details of 5,000 justice staff had been lost by government IT contractor EDS. Justice...
Local government workers in Scotland are planning a further one-day strike later this month, following the failure of unions and local authority employers to reach agreement on pay
The Scottish Government is to press ahead with its controversial plan for a Scottish Futures Trust, which will play a 'key role' in delivering a £35bn investment plan over the next decade, Finance...
Unions representing council workers in Scotland have threatened further strike action after local authority employers refused to increase a 2.5% pay offer.
The Liberal Democrats will debate a major change to their tax policy at their autumn conference as they try to position themselves as the party to help people through tough economic times.
Representatives of millions of public sector workers will discuss co-ordinating strike action against the government's attempts to cap pay rises at next week's Trades Union Congress conference.
More and more civil servants now operate at arm's length from Whitehall as part of agencies. But there are suggestions that a Tory government might reverse this trend and attempt a 'radical...
Public sector managers must abandon the 'outmoded' style of the twentieth-century civil service if public services are to face up to new challenges, a local government think-tank has said.
