Plans to bring together General Practitioners and NHS Direct, the phone in help line launched in 1998, are expected cut the out of hours work load of doctors by up to 50 %. This estimate is based on ...

Governing communities is about creating organizations to deliver public services while promoting the values of local democracy. Citizen participation and partnership working have become key issues.

Whitehall departments have agreed to offer deposit loans to staff looking to take up new tenancies in the private rented sector. The scheme, which works in the same way as a staff season ticket loan, ...

Thousands of lives could be saved each year by improving cancer care for people in rural areas an event will be told today. Patients living in the countryside have been speaking about how they face ...

With the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games only a few months away, local authorities are under increasing pressure to encourage the nation to get active and provide new and improved leisure ...

As private sector organizations claim that travel disruptions are delaying managers at a cost of more than 2 million working-hours per week, the Department for Transport has signed a contract for ...

The document celebrates the achievements and contributions of governing bodies. It also looks at what the DfES’s Five-year Strategy for Children and Learners means for school governors and how ...

A major reason for the failure to anticipate and warn is that observers of organizations usually tend to view organizations in terms similar to those employed by the people who run them: as rational, ...

Four areas are to share new funding to build more that 600 homes to the toughest ever environmental standards. The Government says the money will be a big boost for the local councils driving forward ...

2013 is set to be the year that data integration grabs attention of the boardroom and one particular area of focus will be business to business (B2B) data integration says Mikko Soirola, director for ...

Edited by: Derek J. Koehler and Nigel HarveyThe Handbook is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions ...

Figures from the Department of Health show that in the year ending September 2001 an extra 20,740 nurses joined the health service. This figure exceeds the target in the NHS Plan to recruit 20,000 ...