Eleven new English NHS walk-in centres are to be set up over the next two years as part of the government's drive to extend patient choice and widen access to health services.
Rabbi Julia Neuberger, the former chief executive of the King's Fund, has been created a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's honours list.
A wide-ranging overhaul of the civil service in Scotland, including the recruitment of leading figures from business, is planned by First Minister Jack McConnell.
A bitter political row has broken out this week after the Welsh Assembly government announced that it was going to tackle bed-blocking with money earmarked by Chancellor Gordon Brown for keeping down...
The prospect of strike action by 100,000 civil servants at five government departments loomed large this week after members of Whitehall's biggest union began voting on what they described as '...
Northern Irish consultants' acceptance of a new contract will boost doctors' morale and improve patient services, the British Medical Association said this week.
Pharmaceutical companies must undergo a radical change in the way they choose, research and develop new drugs and treatments, the King's Fund said this week.
Cabinet Office minister Douglas Alexander has announced that the e-envoy's office is to be scrapped, with a new head of e-government to be created next year.
Senior local authority figures this week warned councils to seize the opportunity to shape Whitehall's Balance of Funding review or face an unpopular regime being imposed upon them.
The Department for Work and Pensions is making little headway in its struggle to tackle benefit fraud, the auditor general has said in qualifying its accounts for the 14th year in a row.
Christmas has come two weeks early for local government and, in an unlikely turn of events, Gordon Brown has been transformed from Scrooge to Santa Claus.
Council tax bills in Scotland are set to rise by an average of about 4.5%, after the local government funding settlement announced this week by Finance and Public Services Minister Andy Kerr.
The amount Scotland receives from the Treasury to make up for a shortfall in tax income has increased to £8bn, according to the Scottish Executive's latest assessment of the country's finances.
Senior civil servants will be given training in commercial skills to improve the government's procurement record, a Whitehall report revealed this week.
The Treasury is committing more than £4bn to its 'untried' baby savings scheme which may only benefit the children of affluent families, MPs warned this week.
