It was sheer luck that no patient suffered serious illness as a result of serious failings at Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust, a health watchdog has found.
The Improvement and Development Agency has appointed the colourful and often controversial chief executive of Camden, Steve Bundred, as its new executive director.
The government does not take the issue of fraud seriously and has failed to introduce even the most basic preventative measures, according to maverick MP Frank Field.
Government plans to free only the best NHS trusts from Whitehall control and to penalise councils that fail to tackle bed-blocking have been criticised by health service managers.
'They are going up the Swanee if someone doesn't give them money,' Mayor Ken Livingstone is reported to have said last weekend of PFI contractors Amey and WS Atkins, leading players in the public-...
Tony Blair's big political ideas for the next 12 months have drawn immediate criticism following their unveiling at the state opening of Parliament this week.
A £200m 'challenge fund' set up by the government to encourage housing associations to provide more affordable homes in Southeast England has been five times oversubscribed.
The Scottish trade unions and the Executive this week agreed an 'employment protocol' on the two-tier workforce, while English unions wait patiently for news of their promised review.
Social services are on the verge of collapse, despite the government's promise of a 6% increase in spending in each of the next three years, the King's Fund said this week.
Local authorities were examining their plans for dealing with emergencies this week in the wake of Prime Minister Tony Blair's appeal for a heightened state of awareness in the face of potential...
The private sector must be realistic about its potential return from public-private partnerships and must deliver on budget, Office of Government Commerce chief executive Peter Gershon said this week.
Local government employers are urgently seeking to restart talks over the fire dispute after fire crews staged their first 48-hour walkout on November 13 14.
The controller of the Audit Commission has urged councils to pressurise the government to ensure that it delivers on a promise to offer greater freedoms to top-performing authorities.
Official complaints about elected members of public bodies have risen dramatically in the past few months, following the introduction of a new code of conduct for councillors, the Office of the...
Officials at the Department for Education and Skills, possibly working under instruction from the former secretary of state, undertook a media campaign to dismiss the chair of the exams watchdog...
David Normington, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Skills, has admitted he was 'ashamed' by the DfES's involvement in the Individual Learning Accounts debacle and revealed it...
Transport commissioner Bob Kiley has attacked London Regional Transport for giving 'illegal' financial guarantees to one of the consortiums involved in the controversial part-privatisation of the...
The National Audit Office has warned that government departments risk losing out on the benefits of future Private Finance Initiative projects if they do not grasp the basics of refinancing.
Incentive payments for consultants who spend most of their time working for the NHS and a scheme to elevate junior doctors to consultant level earlier in their careers could form pillars of the...
The visibly deteriorating state of council housing is a political predicament that has haunted successive governments.
In Scotland, the issue of how to tackle an outstanding repair and investment...
Another local authority has pulled out of the government's stock transfer programme because it would prefer to find other ways of improving its housing.