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1 Mar 01
The government has been urged to put more resources into primary care in order to improve services to patients and bolster GPs' morale.
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22 Feb 01
Whitehall's senior mandarins are likely to face a barrage of criticism in the next few weeks from a report that slates their race relations record.
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22 Feb 01
Patients and nurses will play a key role in assessing the quality of non-clinical services in NHS trusts under new Department of Health guidance.
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22 Feb 01
Bristol's Labour councillors may be dismayed after the city's residents shot their education spending plans to pieces last week in the first budget referendum to be held in a major city.
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22 Feb 01
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has given the clearest signal yet that if Labour wins a second term in government it will set up elected regional assemblies.
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22 Feb 01
The probation service must balance conflicting local and national demands on its resources if it is to improve its services, according to the Audit Commission.
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22 Feb 01
The Local Government Association has called on European institutions to tackle accusations of 'top-down' decision-making by renegotiating relations with other tiers of government.
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22 Feb 01
Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged that his government will 'power ahead' with its 'fundamental' shake-up of public services if Labour wins a second term in office.
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22 Feb 01
New checks to stop people fraudulently seeking free eye tests and vouchers have been announced by health minister Lord Hunt.
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15 Feb 01
The government tried to face down a barrage of criticism this week over its plans to 'transform' the secondary school system.
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15 Feb 01
The code of conduct for government ministers should be beefed up and lines of accountability strengthened, according to a cross-party committee of MPs.
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15 Feb 01
With millions enjoying Valentine's Day blow-outs, February 14 may not have been the perfect day to warn the population about the dangers of obesity.
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15 Feb 01
E-minister Patricia Hewitt has defended the decision to allocate only £30m towards the government's goal of extensive fast broadband Internet access across Britain by 2005.
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15 Feb 01
Local government leaders are breathing a sigh of relief following publication of the government's long-awaited white paper on the knowledge economy on February 13.
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15 Feb 01
Sir Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment, has announced unexpectedly that he will leave Whitehall at the end of May.
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15 Feb 01
Unison has slammed a decision by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council to cut 450 jobs as 'unnecessary, incompetent and destructive'.
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15 Feb 01
Crisis-ridden Hackney Council has launched a fraud investigation following the discovery of irregular cash transfers between bank accounts, Public Finance has learned.
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15 Feb 01
London's fire authority has agreed in principle to loan Transport for London £15m to help it meet a potential budget shortfall later this year.
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15 Feb 01
The director-general of the Prison Service, Martin Narey, has told MPs that his recent threat to resign was an attempt to galvanise governors he felt were slow to instigate reform.
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15 Feb 01
The motorists' licensing body completed its Millennium Bug preparations only at the last minute and had no workable contingency plan if it failed to meet the deadline, according to the National Audit...
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8 Feb 01
The Local Government Association has asked the Treasury to fund a £200m shortfall created by the teachers' pay increase agreed by the government last week.
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8 Feb 01
NHS league tables are not sufficiently detailed to allow patients to make informed decisions, the Consumers' Association said this week.
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8 Feb 01
The government should quadruple the 'participation premiums' given to universities for admitting students from poor socio-economic backgrounds, according to the Commons education select committee.
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8 Feb 01
The gap between high and low performing schools is still too wide, Ofsted warned this week, following the publication of its annual report.
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1 Feb 01
A powerful committee of MPs has slated the Lord Chancellor's department for its lax handling of the failing Public Trust Office. It also questioned the decision to pay the PTO's departing chief...
1 Mar 01The government has been urged to put more resources into primary care in order to improve services to patients and bolster GPs' morale.
