The vast majority of NHS staff do not know who is responsible for eliminating hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA from their hospital, the results of a national survey have suggested.
Ministry of Defence officials have imposed strict weekly assessments on an IT consortium delivering a crucial £4bn contract, after concerns were raised about one company's past performance.
New Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton this week promised to produce proposals for overhauling UK pensions policy by the spring giving the government adequate time to respond to the...
Primary schools are using covert selection methods to weed out the most disadvantaged pupils, according to the director of the Confederation of Education and Children's Services Managers.
The Audit Commission this week accused Whitehall of hindering local government's efficiency by tampering with regulations that impose huge costs on councils.
As Prime Minister Tony Blair lost a hotly debated Commons vote on the controversial plan to detain terrorist suspects for 90 days, the row escalated over who will pay for the anti-terror measures...
Permanent secretaries' pay will be linked to their success in meeting civil service diversity targets, Cabinet Office minister John Hutton announced this week.
Health workers will be sent to deprived communities to provide health tests as part of a ten-year plan for the future of the NHS in Scotland announced by Health Minister Andy Kerr.
Most health service chief executives believe patients should be able to register with more than one GP, according to a survey carried out by the NHS Confederation.
Central and local government have agreed to patch up their differences and work together to try to keep council tax rises low following angry exchanges earlier in the week.
MPs have condemned as 'entirely unacceptable' the failure by ministers to ensure that the costs of future outbreaks of animal diseases such as foot and mouth are borne by industry instead of...
An 'alternative Lyons inquiry' to examine the next phase of local government modernisation and its implications for councils' finances and functions is to be launched by an influential think-tank.
No single measure of public sector productivity will ever capture the complex relationship between investment in services and the results achieved, the Office for National Statistics has admitted.
More than £2m is being given to 19 schemes in England to develop ways of tackling homelessness more effectively, housing minister Yvette Cooper announced on November 2.
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Annabel Goldie looked set to inherit the top job this week after the sudden resignation of David McLetchie, who has been at the centre of a long-running row over...
The government is launching a major push to make public bodies share services such as finance and human resources amid concerns that they are less efficient than their private sector counterparts.
