Welsh consultants' overwhelming 'yes' vote in the ballot on their new contract will improve doctors' working lives and help recruitment of senior doctors, the British Medical Association said this...
NHS Direct must expand its capacity if it is to meet demand from patients and achieve the targets set by the government, the Commission for Health Improvement said this week.
Water customers in Scotland were warned this week that they face another increase in their bills unless Scottish Water makes faster progress to boost efficiency.
Teachers in England and Wales are to receive an inflation-only, multi-year pay increase for the first time as the government moves to head off a repeat of the schools funding crisis that saw mass...
Councils are threatening to cut services in the expectation of receiving an average 4.9% grant increase when the provisional finance settlement is announced next week.
The Audit Commission expects to see its income fall by £36m over the next three years because of its diminishing responsibilities and its emphasis on more strategic regulation.
Welsh Health Minister Jane Hutt has been warned she must quickly find more funds to improve primary care, despite injecting £51m into the principality's NHS this week.
Home Office ministers and senior police officers have admitted that more work needs to be done to improve police performance, following the publication of indicators that showed falling detection and...
The four UK health departments must launch a co-ordinated programme to tackle nurse shortages or patient care will be put at risk, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
Electricity distributors' contingency plans are not yet robust enough to deal effectively with all aspects of a major power failure should severe weather hit the UK again this winter, the Department...
A 'fundamental breakdown' in financial controls at the National Council for Education and Training for Wales meant that it failed to protect the interests of taxpayers, according to the National...
Service's 128 directly managed prisons in England and Wales spent £461m on essential supplies, while Prison Service headquarters spent a further £491m on central projects and services, such as...
Audit Scotland is developing a new system of auditing Best Value in Scottish councils which will bring a 'significant change' in approach and put the emphasis on performance results.
Plans to extend body-piercing regulation to all local authorities in England and Wales have been criticised as 'wishy-washy' by one London authority, which has overseen the practice for more than a...
The auditor general for Wales has demanded that the Welsh Assembly introduce more 'robust' procedures to ensure its audit recommendations are implemented on time, it emerged this week.
NHS financial discipline must be tightened and deficits eradicated, Welsh Health Minister Jane Hutt warned this week after a far-reaching review claimed that demand could overwhelm services in the...
Hopes that a deal on consultants' terms and conditions could be struck were raised this week when the new health secretary invited doctors' leaders to a meeting to discuss the way forward.
