Shared services can greatly improve efficiency and encourage a culture of collaboration to improve NHS services, says Stephen Sutcliffe, the new finance and accounting director of NHS Shared Business...
Buckinghamshire County Council set up a wholly owned company in 2013 to help it cut the cost of care provision while creating new revenue opportunities
As austerity has pushed down on public services, a plethora of risks and uncertainties have popped up in response. A recent Public Finance roundtable debated the issues at stake
If society is to continue funding higher education through taxes, universities need to open up and work directly with local communities, to become problem-solvers and drivers of economic change.
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has set out the next step for reforms to urgent and emergency care in the health service, with eight parts of the country being chosen to trial widespread...
We need to shift from a focus on supply-side improvement to one on demand-side change. Here are five ground rules for a more collaborative approach to public services.
The Cabinet Office and the Local Government Association have announced the nationwide expansion of the One Public Estate programme as part of efforts to cut costs by sharing offices and other...
The NHS in England needs a ringfenced transformation fund, separate from the £8bn increase already planned by government, to support the essential transformation of services as part of the Five Year...
One way that public bodies are coping with shrinking budgets is by developing revenue-generating services, as Capita’s Chris Dobson highlights in this video interview
A partnership between two local government pension schemes to pool £10bn of assets represents the sector “taking its destiny in its own hands”, one of the leaders of the project has...
Devolution of powers and budgets from central government is an essential driver for integrating public services at the local level, writes Lord Kerslake
The silos of Westminster and Whitehall are not impregnable. Hard-won lessons from the Total Place initiative point the way to improved public service alignment
