Payment by results might help hospital managers and clinicians to understand their costs better, but it comes with significant costs of its own, the CIPFA health finance conference heard.
Primary care trusts should take patients' complaints into account when making commissioning decisions, especially those involving independent sector providers, the Healthcare Commission said this...
Louise Casey, the government's 'respect' czar, is leaving her post to head a review into ways of involving local communities in anti-crime initiatives.
Town hall leaders are warning of cuts to services and jobs after the government's long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget Report this week gave them a meagre 0.9% annual funding...
The Equality and Human Rights Commission came into being this month, bringing all equality issues under one roof. Is this a great leap forward in the fight against discrimination or a messy merger of...
The pledge to end the 'postcode lottery' in who gets free social care might not bear fruit because primary care trusts are ignoring new guidance from the Department of Health, Public Finance has...
Traditional procurement is delivering more value for money as the discipline of the Private Finance Initiative spreads across the market, the Treasury's head of PFI policy has said.
Most council tenants whose homes are transferred to housing associations fail to notice much difference in service, the latest Survey of English housing reveals.
Ministers have not given sufficient thought to the practical consequences of involving more third sector organisations in the delivery of public services, commissioning experts have said.
he shock waves from Northern Rock continue to reverberate throughout the British economy. But what do the financial upheavals mean for public sector organisations and employees? Paul Gosling delves...
The Comprehensive Spending Review is imminent but Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham still has some juggling to do not least to find the funding for the PM's new plans for public services...
The government has done it again, rushing to set up new structures without waiting for the due process of law. This time it concerns Local Involvement Networks, which are set to replace NHS patient...
David Cameron pledged a new era of 'freedom and control' for users of public services and challenged Gordon Brown to call an election in his speech to the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool...
Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears is under pressure to reject a proposed overhaul of council services in the Northwest, after auditors representing one of the nine bids for unitary status...
Town halls and trade unions are demanding that the Department for Communities and Local Government expands a one-off capitalisation of revenues to help councils meet £3bn in equal pay claims across...
Clinicians and new technology are at the centre of the government's vision for the future of the NHS, health minister Lord Ara Darzi was due to say on October 4.
The government's forthcoming ten-year strategy for children must address the educational needs of the most disadvantaged and disaffected youngsters, experts said this week.
The government's move towards 'lighter-touch' regulation in adult social care creates new concerns, a senior inspector told delegates at the CIPFA social care finance conference on September 24.
The Blairite era of public service reform was seemingly declared dead at this year's Labour Party conference, held in Bournemouth on September 24 27, as the language of choice and markets was...
Social landlords must quickly decide their unique selling points to compete in the increasingly complex house-building market, the new head of the Housing Corporation has said.
A single body should replace the 'overcrowded landscape' of organisations that audit, inspect and regulate public services in Scotland, an independent review has concluded.
