The NHS has improved markedly over the past few years, but more attention needs to be paid to public health problems such as obesity, sexually transmitted diseases and especially mental health,...
Pension reform returned to the top of the political agenda this week, but the government and public sector trade unions remained on a collision course over the issue.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull this week outlined Whitehall's latest campaign to improve civil service performance, relaunching a national academy that will train mandarins in the art of...
Scotland's efficiency savings could have been £239m higher if the Executive had applied the equivalent targets set for Whitehall, Professor Arthur Midwinter, the Scottish Parliament's finance adviser...
Government buildings within the Stormont estate in Belfast might be sold off as part of a programme to rationalise civil service accommodation, Northern Ireland's Department of Finance and Personnel...
A report recommending beefed-up powers for the capital's councillors has prompted a political disagreement, with two members of the commission responsible for the study resigning.
The tough new Comprehensive Performance Assessment regime unveiled this week will cost some councils their 'excellent' or 'good' status but its Audit Commission architects are unrepentant.
Mental health provision will have to be drastically changed over the next 20 years to reflect the issue's growing importance, a think-tank has claimed.
Scotland's deputy finance minister, Tavish Scott, has defended the Executive's civil service relocation policy following a setback that forced it to drop plans to move a quango from Edinburgh.
Opposition defence secretary Michael Ancram has accused ministers of sending the country's armed forces into combat with 'one arm tied behind their back', after a National Audit Office report...
Local authorities must substantially improve their financial management arrangements in the 'brave new world' of reformed public services, James Strachan told the CIPFA annual conference in...
Prime Minister Tony Blair this week confirmed Sir Gus O'Donnell as the new Cabinet secretary, ending speculation that the job would be offered to a surprise candidate.
Housing associations and private developers will have to build eco-friendly homes to receive a share of more than £3.3bn in grants over the next two years.
Safeguards to protect NHS patients in Scotland are 'more robust and coherent' than at any time in the history of the service, a public sector watchdog has concluded.
