GPs could deliver huge savings for the NHS by taking on more of the care traditionally given in acute hospitals, according to a Department of Health expert.
A £12m Department of Health joint venture might have broken European Union procurement law and overestimated the potential size of the market by a factor of 16, the National Audit Office has found.
A new government-sponsored commission is to examine ways to encourage more young people, women and individuals from ethnic minorities to become councillors.
Whitehall health officials this week conceded that they have taken on board the lessons of a failed hospital development after senior MPs slammed the project's management.
The lack of a final agreed budget for the 2012 Olympics presents a major risk to the successful delivery of the games, government auditors warned this week.
Civil servants across the UK have begun a two-week overtime 'ban' after disrupting tax office, jobcentre and customs services this week with a 24-hour strike over job cuts, privatisations and pay.
'Thinking the unthinkable' is a term synonymous with New Labour's rather self-aggrandising approach to policy reform yet the reality is that some ministers have been marginalised for obliging with...
The Department for Constitutional Affairs needs to control the 'ridiculous' situation in which millions of pounds of fines go uncollected, the Public Accounts Committee said this week.
The forthcoming Commission for Equality and Human Rights should review political parties' methods of selecting candidates for local elections, according to a think-tank.
Improving access to English lessons is one of the most useful steps councils can take to ensure migrant workers are better integrated into their communities, the local government watchdog said this...
Central government claims that there is no more money to fund adult social care 'ring hollow' as it is withholding an extra £1bn from the 2007/08 local government grant, councils have said.
Local authorities may have seriously underestimated the condition of their homes before the government embarked on its drive to bring them up to standard, according to a new study.
The scale of the impending cutbacks in public spending have been starkly illustrated this week as independent experts warned that the government will have to choose between cutting child poverty and...
An extensive review of the welfare system will consider reducing the period for which lone parents receive child benefits but ministers have vowed not to reduce payment levels, the Department for...
Government attempts to tackle child obesity have involved much 'dithering and confusion' and 'little co-ordination', the Commons Public Accounts Committee has found.
Council tax bills in Scotland have risen by an average of nearly 60% in cash terms over the past ten years, a local government finance report has revealed.