Patient confidentiality is being compromised because a significant group of senior hospital doctors do not have offices, the British Medical Association warned this week.
Private developers and housing associations look set to share £200m in development grants that will be paid out by the Housing Corporation later this year.
The chief executive of NHS 24 in Scotland has apologised to patients following publication of an inquiry report strongly criticising the service over a series of management failures.
The leader of Whitehall's latest professional body this week outlined his ambitious plan to improve working conditions for health sector managers, calling for talks with ministers over pay, pensions...
The Audit Commission has outlined how it will measure local authorities' efficient use of resources when it introduces the revised Comprehensive Performance Assessment framework later this year.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt will come under pressure to put together a financial rescue package for the NHS in Norfolk after government auditors confirmed that the local trust is paying over the...
Lin Homer, chief executive of Birmingham City Council, will quit her post to take on the tough task of leading the Home Office's Immigration and Nationality Directorate later this year.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne this week accused the government of failing to deliver promised civil service job cuts, leaving Britain's economy ailing.
The government has pledged to help councils manage extra costs incurred by a decision to reverse reforms to the local government pension scheme, Public Finance has learned.
The Scottish Executive's claim that spending on frontline services will grow by 5% as a result of efficiency savings has been challenged by the Holyrood Parliament's finance adviser.
Scottish Finance Minister Tom McCabe has demanded immediate assurances from Inverclyde Council that it will improve its performance following a damning report this week by the Accounts Commission.
Construction costs on the government's £25bn schools infrastructure programme could easily be cut to release more than £200m for frontline services, James Stewart has told Public Finance.
Delivering public services is only one aspect of the work performed by charities, and more emphasis needs to be given to the sector's role in campaigning and providing advice and information.
Wendy Thomson, the prime minister's principal adviser on public service reform, is to return to her native Canada to take up a professorship at McGill University in Montreal