Latest Publications

Strong public services are vital in a social market economy, but what they deliver matters much more than who delivers it. Our work is about understanding how to reform and modernise those services to deliver the greatest benefit to society.

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A picture of health? Examining the state of leadership and management in healthcare

The UK’s healthcare system lags behind those of many comparable countries. In this report, we examine the role that better leadership and management can play in both lifting up the tail of under-performing healthcare providers and fostering more “outstanding” healthcare providers, so that healthcare outcomes in this country are much closer those of the best systems in the world.
Published: 03 July 2023
Author(s): Richard Hyde, Niamh O Regan
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Managing it better: Can leadership and management improve public service performance?

The UK public sector has performed comparatively poorly for a long time. This review highlights some of the key ways in which the existing research suggests that leadership and management in the public sector can play an important role in helping bring about improvements in public services.
Published: 19 April 2023
Author: Richard Hyde
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Identity and influence: A role for the rule of law in strengthening British national identity and maintaining the UK’s soft power

The rule of law has a part to play in defining and reinforcing Britishness, an especially important task for a country facing questions about its role in the world and internal challenges over unity. In this report, we lay out steps to restabilising the rule of law in the UK, to strengthen internal unity and ensuring that it remains a key “soft power” asset for the UK.
Published: 19 January 2023
Author: Richard Hyde
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The NHS: Decline and fall, or resurrection?

The NHS is in serious decline, plagued by extensive and deep-seated issues and facing immense pressures from the pandemic and Brexit. In this briefing, Lord Warner sets out a change programme that could reverse the decline – involving radical but necessary steps.
Published: 04 July 2022
Author: Lord Norman Warner
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Future-proofing justice: Making the civil and criminal courts world-leading by 2030

In recent decades the civil and criminal courts of England and Wales have demonstrated significant failings. These are causing considerable individual, societal and financial detriment and undermining the rule of law. This report surveys the current state of the courts and the likely impact of the current modernisation programme and outlines an agenda for reform that goes beyond the existing plans – in order to ensure that the UK’s courts are world-leading by 2030.
Published: 15 June 2022
Author: Richard Hyde
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Right time, right place: improving access to civil justice

This paper discusses access to civil justice in England and Wales, and how policymakers can create a better functioning and more equitable system.
Published: 23 May 2022
Author: Aveek Bhattacharya
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Public Service Reform in the 2020s

What does 'public service reform' look like in the 2020s? This briefing considers three ways the Government might seek to ensure increased funding for public services is efficiently used in a post-austerity era.
Published: 11 January 2022
Author: Aveek Bhattacharya
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Earning trust: Improving criminal justice outcomes for ethnic minorities

This paper discusses some of the issues facing ethnic minorities in the criminal justice system, and how policymakers might improve their outcomes – particularly by increasing their trust in the system.
Published: 15 December 2021
Author: Aveek Bhattacharya
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Treating and preventing adolescent obesity

This briefing paper examines adolescent obesity in Britain. It explores trends in obesity rates, their drivers and policy options for improving adolescent health outcomes and reducing the substantial societal costs of adolescent obesity and its frequent persistence into adulthood.
Published: 13 December 2021
Author(s): Scott Corfe, Jake Shepherd, Linus Pardoe
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