Facts & figures

Public sector pay is in a state of flux. In the Civil Service, under a regime of tight running cost controls, Departments have been obliged to look for flexible pay solutions to their specific recruitment and retention problems. Geographical pay variations and the introduction of performance pay each have apart to play in getting better value for money out of the paybill.     

Facts & figures

Doctors often express objections to managerialism in general practice. But, as research in this article suggests, their approach to management, revealed by the ways they manage their own practices and surgeries, can be more complex and less anatagonistic than is often assumed by observers.     

Facts & figures

Financial Management in the NHS: a Manager's Handbook By H. Mellett, N. Marriott, S. Harris (Chapman and Hall, London, 1993), pp. xvii + 265. £29.50. ISBN 0 412 47320 8.

Competing for Quality—a Manager's Guide to Market Testing By Lynton Barker (Longman, Harlow, 1993). £38.50. ISBN 0 582 23688 6.

The Role of Chief Executives in Local Government By Janice Morphet (Longman, Harlow, 1993), pp. vi + 245. £29.95.     

Facts & figures: Public sector pay: The last ten years

Next Steps: Improving Management in Government? Edited by Barry J. O'Toole and Grant Jordan (Dartmouth Publishing Company, Aldershot, 1995). £37.50. ISBN 1 855 21491 1.

The Myth of Democratic Failure. By Donald Wittman (University of Chicago Press, Chicago; distributed by John Wiley, Chichester, 1995). £23.95. ISBN 0 226 90422 9.

Managing Change in the New Public Sector. Edited by Roger Lovell (Pearson Professional, Southport, 1995). £32.50. ISBN 0 582 23893 5.     

Facts & figures: Public sector as employer: The disables; Pay and disputes in the NHS

Management buy‐outs provide an extra option for the restructuring of State enterprises. However, as with other privatisations, they may generate problems and measures may need to be taken to ensure that the public interest is not damaged in the long term.     

Facts & figures: Financing nationalised industries: An international comparison; Continuity and change in industrial support

Public management cannot be reduced to a set of mechanical components. The art of judgment is required to resolve a series of dilemmas concerning equity, rationing, discretion and values. Management and politics are inextricably linked in this process, and divorcing them impoverishes both.     

Facts & figures: Public sector and GDP: Some international comparisons; Local authorities and the law: Selected legal precedents

We are indebted to Alastair Gray, of the Open University, for much of the statistical analysis on which this article is based.     

Facts & figures: Health care: Private and public spending,resources, need and provision; Privatisation: A further progress report

Labour Market Policy and Unemployment Insurance Anders Björklund, Robert Haveman, Robinson Hollister and Bertil Holmlund. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 205 pp. £25. 00. ISBN 0 19 828323 7.

Survey of Computer Fraud &; Abuse 1990 Audit Commission, Nicholson House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6SU, UK. £7.50. (A supplement at £9.50 details all the individual cases used in compiling the report.)

Public Sector Financial Management H. M. Coombs and D. E. Jenkins. Chapman &; Hall, London (1991). x + 294 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0 412 38550 3.     

Men, women & alcohol: a distinctly unequal & dangerous relationship

This article illustrates how women who abuse alcohol are at greater risk physically, emotionally and socially than their male counterparts. As a result, I recommend that clinical assessment and underwriting of women, who abuse or have the potential to abuse alcohol, change to reflect the increased risks which these women face.     

Financial & economic review

Statement by HM Treasury on the 1982 Pay Claim by the Council of Civil Service Unions HM Treasury, London, 1982, free

Budgetary Reform Sixth Report from the Treasury and Civil Service Committee, Session 1981/82, House of Commons Paper 137, HMSO, London, 1982, £10.90

The Roads Programme and the Transport Aspects of the 1982 Public Expenditure White Paper Fourth Report from the Transport Committee, Session 1981/82, House of Commons Paper 334, HMSO, London, 1982, £4.80

Public Expenditure on the Social Services Second Report from the Social Services Committee, Session 1981/82, House of Commons Paper 306–1, Volume I, HMSO, London, 1982, £4.35

Public Expenditure on the Social Services Second Report from the Social Services Committee, Session 1981/82, House of Commons Paper 306–11, Volume II, HMSO, London, 1982, £10.60

Financing of the Nationalised Industries Eighth Report from the Treasury and Civil Service Committee, Session 1980/81, House of Commons Paper 348‐II, HMSO, London, 1981, £9.15

Budgetary Reform Sixth Report from the Treasury and Civil Service Committee, Session 1981/82, House of Commons Paper 137, HMSO, London, 1982, £10.90     

Financial & economic review

This is an expanded version of an article by Sue Ward in TRANSPORT UK 1985.