Tough new measures to combat health care-acquired infections such as MRSA should help staff do their job, not provide a new stick with which to beat them, the NHS Confederation said this week.
David Miliband has defended the government's widespread use of targets in its drive to improve local services but has pledged to scrap those that are hindering rather than helping progress.
The Office for National Statistics has denied that it intends to include Private Finance Initiative liabilities in public sector net debt, while admitting to exploring how this could be done.
Councils that have privatised their IT services are 'significantly' less happy with their contracts than those that manage them in-house, the Society of IT Management said this week.
Unison has called on Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt to take urgent steps to combat violence against staff, patients and visitors in mental health inpatient units.
NHS staff who gain unauthorised access to patients' electronic records could be sacked, face criminal charges or be fined thousands of pounds, the Department of Health said this week.
A Scottish council is set to become the subject of one of the most critical reports of a local authority's performance ever produced by the public spending watchdog, the Accounts Commission.
Government proposals to give people a leg up on to the property ladder are a step in the right direction, the author of its review of housing supply has told Public Finance .
John Williams, director of public services at the CBI business lobby, is the latest senior outsider to be recruited as a special adviser to the government.
NHS organisations must show they are tackling health inequalities or risk receiving a lower performance rating, the Healthcare Commission said this week.
Council leaders met ministers in the new government for the first time this week just one day after a far-reaching programme of legislation was laid out in the Queen's Speech.
Finance Minister Tom McCabe has called on critics of public-private partnership projects in Scotland to leave preconceived ideas behind and start looking for new solutions to project delivery.
Quantifying savings in a meaningful way is going to be one of the toughest challenges of the government's efficiency drive, the man charged with securing more than £1bn in procurement gains has told...
Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett has dismissed claims that the government's proposed welfare reform package could punish the genuinely sick or disabled by forcing them back to work.
Chancellor Gordon Brown has used his first two keynote speeches since the general election to issue a stark warning to public sector workers against excessive wage demands.