Tony Blair should mobilise world leaders to set up a World Financial Authority to deal with the worsening global crisis, according to a report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research.The report calls for a body to help develop policies to manage risk in the unstable world economy. Its objectives would include a requirement to pursue policies to maintain high rates of growth and employment. 

A team from the University of Westminster is to study how local transport and health workers can work together more effectively.The study is commissioned jointly by the Department of Health and the Health Education Authority, in consultation with the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions.
It is anticipated that the findings will lead to new guidance to field workers in both disciplines in the Spring. 

Whether as citizens, politicians or public servants, we all have our own experiences of using public services. But modern public mangement must go beyond anecdotal evidence to provide soundly-based, objective information on what people want from public services.This report, commissioned by the Better Government Team in the Cabinet Office and written by a team from the Policy Studies Institute, the Office for Public Management and Acumen, identifies such objective evidence.