One year into the Comprehensive Spending Review and many public bodies still do not have an effective strategy to deal with the new era of financial constraint. Simply salami slicing budgets isn’t going to work Read more
Public sector job losses are taking place much faster than expected, leading to reduced demand in the economy. Ministers will have to use reforms set out in the Open public services white paper to mitigate the effects of further cuts Read more
In all the discussion about health service reform, another issue is in danger of being overlooked. Will the NHS be getting a real increase each year, as promised, over the next four years of the Spending Review, or not? The Budget cast new light on this through two separate announcements. Read more...
A credibility gap is opening up in the NHS as it tries to cope with major restructuring while finding annual savings of 4% Read more...
The Localis survey of local authority finance directors showed an amazing insight into local authority management if it is accurate. Can it be accurate? Surely not. Read more...
What a year it was. A new form of government, hitherto unseen reform of the public sector and a huge reduction programme. By this time next year, we will know how successful it all was Read more...
The coalition presents itself as a clean break from Labour’s command-and-control regime. But its fascination with Spending Reviews, business plans and milestones tells a different story Read more...
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