GPs have urged the Department of Health to implement immediately proposals that would slash their paperwork and enable them to see another 100 patients each per year.
People with disabilities are being seriously let down by a government failure to provide promised funds for equipment, and some services remain in 'a parlous state', the Audit Commission has warned.
Labour's flagship housing policy of providing affordable properties for public sector workers is backfiring at a time when the shortfall has reached 'crisis point', MPs were told this week.
'We're doing our bit, the Audit Commission is doing its bit, now you do your bit,' is the message that will be sent to ministers from the Local Government Association conference next week.
Financial control of a flagship health service partnership in Bedfordshire was so poor that the scheme had effectively collapsed within months, a District Audit report has found.
The chief inspector of the National Probation Service has called for more funding to maintain the improvement in services since the national framework was introduced last year.
The Scottish Executive this week moved to counter severe criticism over its record on NHS waiting lists by buying a £37.5m private hospital and pouring £15m into an initiative to relieve bed blocking.
Incoming Cabinet secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull has outlined a reformed structure for the Cabinet Office that dissolves the multitude of units set up after the last election.
As pubs and bars in England prepared for another bout of early-morning World Cup fever this week, serious doubts were raised about the ability of London's public services to cope with a more...
There may have been relief when the draft Local Government Bill published with requisite fanfare by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott last week finally emerged.
Stock transfers could become more expensive if large urban authorities are encouraged to switch their housing to a series of registered social landlords.
Department of Health officials have admitted they will have to go 'back to the drawing board' after a pilot system for reporting medical errors proved to be under-reporting mistakes.
An attempt to replicate Scotland's proposed system of free care for elderly NHS patients across the rest of the UK is likely to end in failure, Derek Wanless has warned.
International Development Secretary Clare Short threw out a challenge to accountancy bodies when she told the CIPFA annual conference that 'the future of international development is in the hands of...
The increasing influence of special advisers in government departments need not threaten the traditional role of civil servants, according to the permanent secretary at the Office of the Deputy Prime...
