eProcurement made slow progress in the early period following its launch ten years ago. As well as user unfriendly and not very reliable technology it called for substantial investment in time and ...

The National Audit Office has today called for the Department for Work & Pensions to use the hard lessons it learned from implementing its recent programme of welfare reforms to improve how it manages ...

Almost half of England’s local councils believe there will be regional assembly government in their areas within the next four years and they believe the assemblies will take power away from them ...

People with vocational qualifications are half as likely to spend a long time looking for work as those with a degree according to a survey published today. The study has been conducted by YouGov, ...

The NHS Confederation has launched an initiative to find out what are the barriers that are limiting the implementation of the NHS ten year plan. The Confederation is the voice of management in the ...

The universal credit programme, which seeks to simplify welfare benefits, is in danger of failing. This admission emerged when the government published details of performance for its most expensive ...

Every secondary school in Wales will have a named nurse to work with pupils by this time next year. The Welsh Assembly Government is to make additional money available to Health Boards to overcome a ...

The second Annual Report of the Major Projects Authority, established by the Prime Minister in 2010 to provide central assurance over projects, presents a glowing picture of success in the past year, ...

The 2009 annual survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reveals that across all sectors training spend per employee has fallen by almost one third from £300 last year to £220 ...

Sweating the people assets is a well tried way of increasing efficiency and the public sector has many examples of how this can be done. The ‘Total Place’ proposals, part of the Treasury’s Operational ...

New research says the National Health Service is no longer meeting its founding aims and compares poorly with other healthcare systems. The pamphlet suggests a scheme of payments to each patient would ...

Partnership working has become a feature of delivering public services. NHS bodies and local authorities have a statutory responsibility under the Health Act to work together. In order to qualify for ...