The chief executive of the NHS has admitted that the Department of Health did not keep a close enough eye on hospital spending as they rushed to meet targets by 'overshooting' required staffing...
The government cannot guarantee that sensitive patient data will be protected once it is e-mailed out of the UK, the director general of NHS IT has told Public Finance .
Decisions over the pay of senior police officers may be transferred to the body that sets salary levels for top civil servants and army officers, under proposals announced last week.
Political consensus is emerging over the government's hefty welfare reform agenda, outlined in the Queen's Speech, with opposition parties claiming that planned changes are overdue rather than...
Public cash to support regional economic development should be targeted at northern cities, a leading think-tank has claimed, despite new research indicating that the UK's North-South divide is...
Town hall leaders are demanding that devolution must underpin the Bills of the next parliamentary session, as the prime minister used the last Queen's Speech of his tenure to outline a far-reaching...
Health and education took a back seat in the Queen's Speech, but the absence of a Bill merging the health and social care inspectorates drew confused responses.
Launching the report of his inquiry into local government finance in Scotland, Sir Peter Burt the current chair of ITV repeated several times what he saw as a main attraction of his proposed new...
Experts have predicted another tough financial year for the NHS in England after the Department of Health published the payment by results tariff increases for 2007/08.
The Revenue and Customs department this week launched a £2.5bn review that will initiate thousands more civil service job cuts and close offices across the UK over the next five years.
Department of Health plans to limit the demand for hospital care by elderly people by providing better preventative community care will not work, the results of a pilot study suggest.
The Treasury has issued guidance in an attempt to end the 'innocence' of early Private Finance Initiative deals that allowed companies to use their own prices as value-for-money benchmarks.
Up to a quarter of government grants designed to attract businesses into deprived areas have to be returned as firms fail to keep their promises to bring new jobs and investment into the area,...
A leading Whitehall contractor was this week accused of breaking employment rules when it announced more compulsory redundancies involving civil service jobs that are being taken offshore.
Social service leaders are giving their cautious co-operation to a scheme to send vulnerable children to boarding school, but are warning that the project runs counter to the rest of the child...
Council tax in Scotland should be replaced by a new property tax requiring householders to pay 0.9% of the value of their home annually, the Burt committee on the future of local government finance...
