Money will follow the patient. Trusts will be paid on results. Hospitals that treat more patients will receive more money. GP-led commissioning bodies will be able to scrap deals with local NHS care...
Backbench councillors and the general public feel 'disillusioned' with the introduction of Cabinet-style local leadership because they are excluded from the democratic process, MPs were told this...
The Criminal Records Bureau has promised to rectify its 'appalling' service standards after apologising to nearly 100 local authorities that had complained bitterly of an 'administrative fiasco'.
Council taxpayers in Bedfordshire may be asked to stump up around £500 each to cover the cost of the riot at Yarl's Wood detention centre, it was revealed this week.
Senior backbencher Edward Leigh has slated the government for failing to develop systems for measuring the success of its e-government programme two years after pledging to do so.
Proposals to set up independent inspectorates for health and social care should result in a less politicised NHS that is freed from Whitehall control, the King's Fund said this week.
The chair of the Labour Party has dismissed this week's technology pilots for the local elections, pledging instead to boost voter turnouts through traditional pavement politics.
The health secretary has warned nurses that the salary increases expected following the restructuring of the NHS pay system will 'not be a something-for-nothing arrangement'.
The Department of Health will propose a 'fundamental' reform of the NHS clinical negligence system after it was revealed that the English health service had to set aside £4.4bn to cover claims during...
London Mayor Ken Livingstone's imminent new transport powers will come under increasing internal scrutiny following a fundamental reorganisation of the Greater London Authority's independent...
College lecturers and principals buried their differences over pay this week when staff from more than 420 sixth form and further education colleges lobbied the government for more money.
Doug McAvoy has warned ministers not to use teaching assistants as 'cheap labour' to fill staff shortages, just days before a long-awaited report on teachers' workloads is released.
Newly appointed Cabinet secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull must endorse a Civil Service Act to ensure Whitehall continues to be open and politically impartial, the senior civil servants' union warned this...
The wind-up of the company behind the much-criticised Millennium Dome was beset by fraud allegations and inadequate record-keeping, but its overall finances improved prior to closure, according to a...
Public services are to receive an extra £4bn in 2003/04, with over half allocated to the health service, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in this week's Budget.
NHS managers dazzled by this week's £40bn Budget boost called on the government to trust them to improve the health service. But they warned ministers not to expect instant results.
Backbench Labour MPs this week raised fears that NHS trusts were unnecessarily selling off millions of pounds worth of property and land to inject much-needed cash into hospital services.
The Department of Health is to review the national breast cancer screening programme following a report that highlighted 'unacceptable and avoidable' failures in one London screening service.
English local authorities have doubled the amount of useful products they retrieve from household waste since 1996/97, according to new government figures.
The Department for Environment, Food and...
The government's housing transfer programme was back on course this week after Liverpool tenants voted to switch 13,500 homes to registered social landlords.
Members of the Best Value Review Group fear that ministers will fail to effect substantial change because the government is too concerned with juggling the interests of employers and the unions...
