Public service reform has been on the agenda for years. But in the times of plenty, it has lacked the urgency or coherence that today's fiscal situation demands. This paper argues that a market-based approach to public service delivery is the basis for public service effectiveness and efficiency over the coming decade.
As the UK government contemplates root and branch reform of public sector pensions, this edited collection brings together a range of expert contributions to explore the arguments behind the debate and the options facing ministers.
eople demand more from their public services than ever before. The rising prosperity and greater social freedoms of the post-war period have led to the rise of the 'assertive citizen'.
Public service reform has been on the agenda for years. But in the times of plenty, it has lacked the urgency or coherence that today's fiscal situation demands.
This report provides an evidence-based analysis of the effects of choice systems in public services. It brings together the research findings from a range of international and domestic studies on the impact of choice on provider schemes and draws conclusions about their further introduction in the UK.
Ten years has passed since the publication of Osborne and Gaebler’s landmark book Reinventing Government. Thus, in 2004, the Social Market Foundation published a reflection on the ten principles for entrepreneurial government that were set out in the original.
Without effective use of information, public service delivery is slow, inefficient and expensive. Yet, until recently, improving the government's use of information had not been a priority.
This report outlines the current pattern of co-payment in the UK and debates whether there is a case for introducing or extending co-payment into new areas of public service provision.
Patients have had the right to choose a GP since 1948. Yet for most of us, this right is little more than hypothetical. In this report, Professor Paul Corrigan, former Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Health, explains why our primary care sector has reached this point and what reforms the Government should implement to address the problem.
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In this volume, several junior ministers argue that reform of public services is the natural concomitant of equity and efficiency and set out the direction of future travel.
This report is a thorough examination of the government's use of targets in four public services: education, health, housing and the criminal justice system.
Following a lecture given to the Said Business School, Oxford on 10th June 2004, Davies delivers an essay with a contribution f...
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