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A new lease of life: Three steps to success for the NHS
The crisis in the NHS, with unacceptable waiting lists and ever increasing emergency admissions, shows the current model is failing to meet modern healthcare needs. This briefing proposes a new model to increase efficiency, shifting care away from the district general hospital towards fewer, specialist teams, more neighbourhood care and greater transparency.
| Published: | 25 January 2024 |
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| Author(s): | Nick Bosanquet, Andrew Haldenby |
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Character building: Why character is essential for career readiness
New technologies and new challenges mean that young people today will need more than just technical skills and knowledge to be prepared for the careers of tomorrow. Baroness Morgan outlines the importance of character development in education, and considers what policymakers can do to ensure it is prioritised appropriately.
| Published: | 22 January 2024 |
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| Author: | Rt Hon the Baroness Morgan of Cotes |
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Member choice, to complement small pots’ consolidation
In the Autumn Statement 2023, the Chancellor announced a call for evidence on a lifetime provider model for pensions. This briefing, with a foreword from pensions minister Paul Maynard, details a “member choice” proposal, which would simplify the pensions market by allowing individuals to move towards having one pension pot for life, thereby helping to tackle the long-standing problem of “small pot” pensions.
| Published: | 13 December 2023 |
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| Author(s): | Michael Johnson, Tom McPhail |
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Are regulations achieving their objectives? Post Implementation Reviews – why they should be done, why they aren’t done and how to get them done
Regulatory policy is often under-prioritised by governments, particularly when compared with the detailed focus associated with tax and spending measures. Even where a clear policy development process is adopted and applied for regulatory measures, it rarely has the same profile or attendant resources as applied to fiscal measures. This paper, with a foreword by John Penrose MP, highlights one aspect of this regulatory policy deficit – the lack of priority given to evaluation and ex-post review of regulatory measures.
| Published: | 12 December 2023 |
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| Author(s): | Stephen Gibson, Krishna Kenche |
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RAMPing up? Lessons from TestRAMP as a marketplace solution for COVID-19 testing
TestRAMP established a marketplace to boost supply, availability and affordability of PCR testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This briefing considers the general lessons learned from that experience and high-level implications for how to scale up markets in scarce critical resources, or ‘crisis markets’, in times of emergency.
| Published: | 06 December 2023 |
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| Author(s): | Mike Hudson, Sam Robinson |
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Roads to recovery: Exploring UK prison rehabilitation and its alternatives
One of the primary purposes of the UK prison system is to facilitate offender rehabilitation. However, inadequate support and high reoffending rates mean it may be failing to live up to that ideal. Drawing upon lessons from the Netherlands and Norway, this briefing highlights the potential benefits of alternative approaches to rehabilitation.
| Published: | 30 November 2023 |
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| Author(s): | Jake Shepherd, Niamh O Regan |
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Degrees of separation: The education divide in British politics
British politics since the 2016 Brexit referendum has been characterised by the emergence of a new divide, between graduates and school leavers. Education now has a stronger relationship with vote choice than any other demographic or economic variables other than age. This report, from leading political scientist Professor Robert Ford, explores the implications of the changing electoral landscape for the UK’s major political parties.
| Published: | 27 November 2023 |
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| Author(s): | Robert Ford, Hannah Bunting, Ralph Scott, Maria Sobolewska |
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Insulating Britain: Examining the barriers and motivations to decarbonising our homes
Decarbonising home heat, which accounts for 14% of the UK’s carbon emissions, is essential if the UK is to achieve its target to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But current policies are falling short. This report explores what motivates landlords and owner occupiers to insulate their homes, and how to overcome the obstacles that prevent them from doing so.
| Published: | 24 November 2023 |
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| Author: | Niamh O Regan |
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Top of the class? Examining the state of leadership and management in education
Education is strongly linked with economic success, yet education quality in the UK lags behind many comparable countries. This report examines the central role that better leadership and management have to play in addressing this, and makes recommendations for how the government can improve the quality of leadership and management in the UK education system.
| Published: | 16 November 2023 |
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| Author(s): | Richard Hyde, Niamh O Regan |