Top NHS hospitals will be put off applying for foundation trust status if the proposed new regulator is not truly independent, NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards warned this week.
Senior health service managers will have a code of conduct written into their employment contracts for the first time under plans unveiled this week by NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp.
Only months after a damning report on management practices at Corby Borough Council, independent inspectors have again blasted the authority for 'weak' and 'ineffective' oversight of contracts...
Proposals by Scotland's first minister to improve the workings of the European Union have been backed by the body that represents Europe's devolved governments, local authorities and regions.
The government will fail to meet its recruitment target of 15,000 extra GPs and hospital consultants by 2008 because it is not training enough doctors, a leading health care think-tank said this week...
The salaries of hundreds of thousands of NHS staff must be moved closer to those of teachers and police officers or they will leave the service, health unions warned this week.
An independent commission to investigate low and unequal pay across local government has been hit by a new setback after the professor due to chair it demanded a reduction in personnel.
The custodians of the capital's double yellow lines have become the latest group of council workers to strike over London weighting as unions aim to hit councils' income.
The unions are to press again for a fair wages resolution in public-private partnerships following the promise of a review into the two-tier workforce last week. But the private sector has...
A row over which section of government will pick up the tab for the impending firefighters' strike is looming, with councils fearing that they could again be left to bear the costs.
Education officials are to concentrate on reform of the A-level system following the conclusion of an independent inquiry into the recent marking fiasco.
Paul Kirby is to play a crucial role in the government's drive to reshape public services after being appointed head of reform strategy at the Cabinet Office.
Public service unions are hopeful that Tony Blair's speech at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool this week offers a renewed opportunity for debate over the vexed question of the use of the...
Local authorities are questioning the 2001 census data published this week after they showed population drops that could knock millions of pounds off their government grants.
Linda Dickens, professor of industrial relations at Warwick Business School, is the unanimous choice to chair the local government pay commission, the body set up on the back of this year's prolonged...
The Liberal Democrats have voted in favour of a wide policy review of public services which sets out plans for radical decentralisation and a health tax to fund the NHS.
Estelle Morris's political prospects had been looking so promising. Popular with teachers and the public alike, it seemed a certainty that she would be a long-standing and well-liked education...
Tony Blair is set to go on the attack over the Private Finance Initiative at the Labour Party conference next week, where a motion calling for a moratorium on new deals is likely to be passed by...
