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by quentin reade The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) has attacked the Government for failing to take into account the needs of employers in its rush to create a new [...]

CMS: QIO review. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes criteria for evaluating Quality Improvement Organizations. These groups get Medicare dollars to help nursing homes, home health agencies and [...]

Inadequate support by the government contributed to the lengthy delays in assessing compensation claims for people wrongly charged by the NHS for personal care, a watchdog has found. Health service [...]

* In Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Planning for Program Changes and Future Workforce Needs Is Incomplete, the General Accounting Office (GAO) recommends that SAMHSA develop a detailed [...]

The government's plans to set up a series of asylum accommodation centres were plunged further into disarray last week after the deputy prime minister John Prescott refused to give a [...]

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE Barry Proctor ponders whether the government's plans for a new toll road mean it has simply given up building any new roads. Alistair Darling said last [...]

Pressure is mounting on the government to introduce long-promised new laws against companies that cause death to employees or the public. Adam Hill reports. Seven years ago, the government promised [...]

FOR THE pAST THREE YEARS, THE NATIONAL TREATMENT AGENCY HAS TACKLED DRUG ABUSE IN ENGLAND WITH SOME SUCCESS. FAR MORE PEOPLE NOW receive EFFECTIVE TREATMENT THAN EVER BEFORE. but not [...]

Will the proposed Commission for Equality and Human Rights be able to deliver or will it be just another talking shop? Anabel Unity Sale asks the opinions of disability, race [...]

Ofcom has very rapidly become the regulator we all love to hate. All those people, all that money and the never-ending stream of consultations and documents that immediately mean lots [...]

A government agency designed to cut staffing costs in the NHS has cost more than pounds 50 million since its inception in 2000, but there is no evidence it has [...]

GAO's testimony, Social Security Disability: Commissioner Proposes Strategy to Improve the Claims Process, But Faces Implementation Challenges, GAO-04-552T, found that the Social Security Administration's (SSA) disability decisions still take a [...]

Angry social work students have criticised the General Social Care Council for confusion over bursary entitlements which led to them being told they would receive no financial help and would [...]

THE first stage of a review into the workings of the Financial Ombudsman Service process is drawing to a close. A panel that is investigating how the FOS carried out [...]

As a new National President of AGA, Julin Renthrope declares the theme for 2003-04 to be 'AGA-Taking Accountability to the Next level' and expects that the Association will expand its influence in making government at all levels more accountable to the people it serves. He goes on to mention the areas of emphasis and goals he wants the AGA to achieve.

Advancing Government Accountability (AGA) is positioned to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world, thanks to the vision and the dedication of many leaders and members. AGA's national president describes the mission it is carrying out and how it needs to strengthen its financial foundation for future.

The Human resources (HR) can assist the government in evaluating its effectiveness. Standardized outcome measures are required to assess the performances of various federal agencies which are responsible for their way of functioning.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has come under heavy fire from a cross-party group of MPs for being poorly managed, disunited, and not up to the challenges [...]

I recently cashed in my brother's 50th birthday present - a hot air balloon trip. The fact that I am now 52 gives some indication of the waiting list for [...]

Editor: At a time of tragedy such as society has experienced in the last few weeks, it would appear that it is time for our country to recognize the value [...]

Memo to: Marsa MacBride, FCCchief of staff From: Michael K Powell FCC chairman Re: FCC Reform & Reorganization Date: July 9, 2001 At my direction and with your considerable support, [...]

HHS was rated at the bottom of the class for how it reports its performance. The organization ranked 22 out of 23 reporting federal agencies on the quality of its [...]

The Defense Acquisition University (DAU) originally operated as a consortium of several Military Service and Defense Agency schools offering acquisition-related courses as part of their curricula. During the year 2000, [...]

Federal agencies are required by Mar.31 to make their initial performance reports under the 1993 Government Performance & Results Act. But they've already gotten an average grade in management--a B-minus--from […]

Pity the U.S. Bureau of the Census. First, a mass mailing to 120 million households carried incorrect addresses because a printer's mistake on the envelopes added an extra digit to [...]

As if the annual snowbird migration isn't enough, two state legislators want Florida to be more like New Jersey. Rep. Luis Rojas and Sen. Roberto Casas, both Republicans from Hialeah, [...]

It's no surprise that federal agencies that provide free services, such as Head Start, got high marks on what Vice President Al Gore hailed as the first 'objective and scientific [...]

It's no surprise that federal agencies that provide free services got high marks on what Vice President Al Gore hails as being the first 'objective and scientific government-wide measurement of [...]

Israeli government agencies like the Automobile Licensing Bureau and the Social Security Department are becoming increasingly dependant on outsourcing to high tech consultants who have the expertise to carry out [...]

New South Wales Department of Transport has invited proposals for a smartcard ticketing system covering all rail, bus, and ferry services in the Sydney [...]