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...
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.
Margaret Eaton, the frontrunner in the race to become the Local Government Association's new chair, will pick her battles with ministers, but has pledged to be 'aggressively forthright' if necessary.
There remains a lack of coherence in education provision for many 16-year-olds, despite attempts to create a joined-up 14-19 structure for learning, a review of local provision has found.
Election officers believe companies should be legally prevented from gaining access to the personal details in the electoral register, according to a survey published this week.
As councils congratulate themselves on increasing household recycling rates, a House of Lords committee has highlighted a problem that could wreck the drive to cut down on landfill. Of Britain's...
Former Local Government Association chair Lord Bruce-Lockhart has died of cancer at the age of 66. A former leader of Kent County Council, Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was LGA chair from 2004 to 2007, where...
