The National Audit Office is considering launching an inquiry into the funding of GP out-of-hours care after it was claimed that cuts were compromising the quality of the service.
Nightmare neighbours who hold communities to ransom with threatening and intimidating behaviour are to be offered a last chance to change their ways before being evicted from their homes.
Pay parity in the health service was thrown into the spotlight this week with chief executives' salaries breaching the £200,000 mark for the first time as Unison entered final negotiations on a...
Many schools that have elected to specialise in a particular subject are not performing well in their area of expertise, education watchdog Ofsted said this week.
The government's push on preventative health will continue to take a back seat in the NHS as targets and incentives focus on more 'vote-winning' acute care, a think-tank warned this week.
Paul Boateng has given the green light to development work on a cost index that would accurately reflect the financial pressures faced by local authorities, Public Finance has learned.
Further education colleges are demanding that the government plug a £200m funding shortfall that leaves them with 10% less cash per pupil than school sixth forms.
The Audit Commission is to slash £18m from public bodies' annual inspection bills after a review concluded that significant areas of the regulator's activities do not represent value for money.
The head of the Ministry of Defence's new Private Finance Unit will have a veto over future projects as part of his remit to improve the department's lamentable procurement record, officials have...
Audit Commission chief executive Steve Bundred this week stepped in to heal a potential breach with foundation trusts' regulator Monitor over the troubled Bradford Hospitals trust.
Health Secretary John Reid put his commitment to improving public health into action this week by diverting more NHS cash into the most deprived areas of England.
Directors of the multibillion pound NHS information technology project have vowed to win over sceptical doctors whose declining support could turn the scheme into a white elephant.
Refinancing the first Private Finance Initiative hospital has introduced new liabilities and private sector profits have soared as a result, the National Audit Office said this week.
The Public Accounts Committee criticised the Home Office this week for allowing an 'unhealthy' backlog of asylum applications to build up, as Labour and Conservatives launched a pre-election war of...
Finding a blueprint to tackle Britain's looming pensions crisis is one of the major challenges Work and Pensions Secretary Alan Johnson has set himself, he told Public Finance this week.
