Benefits claimants face the stark prospect of a penniless Christmas as strike action by the Public and Commercial Services Union over the screens issue began this week.
Local authorities are to be ranked for the first time, with high-performers promised the freedom to sell their services and set their own council tax levels, according to this week's long-awaited...
Cancer services have improved in England and Wales but the quality of care depends on where patients live and the type of cancer they have, a report from the Commission for Health Improvement and the...
Postal unions have reassured the public that they do not intend to disrupt the busy Christmas mailing period, despite the threat of strike action in the wake of Consignia's announcement that 30,000...
Local authority Private Finance Initiative projects may become more difficult to approve as part of the fall-out from the collapse of US energy giant Enron.
The NHS has two years to regain public confidence or its principles of a tax-funded, equitable service may be lost for good, health minister Lord Hunt said last week.
The government's decision to give the English NHS fewer national targets and allow patients more choice over where they are treated has been welcomed by doctors and managers.
Increasing patient expectations will provide the greatest impetus for the NHS to improve, Neil McKay, NHS chief operations officer told the HFMA conference.
Local government employers have emphatically rejected the public sector unions' opening salvo in the 2002 pay negotiations as 'completely unrealistic'.
Gordon Brown has rejected suggestions that promised service improvements resulting from increased public spending are being thwarted by Whitehall's reluctance to spend the extra money.
Officials this week denied that a private meeting between Transport Secretary Stephen Byers and London Mayor Ken Livingstone heralded an imminent U-turn by the government on the Tube's public-private...
Labour is facing a major crisis over homelessness after figures showed the number of families living in bed and breakfast accommodation has risen by nearly a quarter in just 12 months.
The Benefits Payment Card was 'one of the biggest IT failures in the public sector' and wasted £1bn, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
Charities have called for an independent inquiry into the way the government counts homeless people after ministers declared they had hit their target of reducing the number of rough sleepers by two-...
Local authorities face the prospect of having to raise council taxes if they fail to fund their pension schemes adequately in the next few years, according to the Government Actuary's Department.
Chancellor Gordon Brown's scenario for revitalised health spending including an instant £1bn boost was designed to bring certainty and clarity to the argument over funding.
Senior management at London Underground conceded this week that final contracts on the public-private partnership for the Tube, already two years late, could be subject to further delays.
Almost two-thirds of public sector organisations fear they will be unable to afford the next round of pay increases, according to Public Finance 's latest survey.
