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18 avr. 2024 · Between 1997 and 2019, measured public service productivity increased on average by 0.2% per year. In contrast, economy-wide productivity increased by 1.1% per year on average over that period. Among all the public services the ONS measures, only healthcare saw increases in productivity (of 0.9% per year on average), while all other services ...
30 oct. 2023 · Performance Tracker 2023 outlines the current state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and the problems they face. Government is stuck in a public service performance doom loop.
15 août 2024 · Sam Freedman, IfG senior fellow and author of ' Failed State: Why nothing works and how to fix it ', joins Hannah White for a fascinating discussion about what has gone wrong – and how to make it right. From a stuttering civil service to a stumbling parliament, failed prime ministers and fraught permanent secretaries, Hannah and Sam take a ...
22 juil. 2024 · Fixing public services: The NHS. Contents. The NHS is broken. That is no longer just the opinion of think tanks, the press and the public, but is now official government policy. 1 Wes Streeting, the new Labour health and social care secretary, is largely correct. Problems in the NHS are well documented and extensive.
Improving accountability in government procurement. The PPE and Horizon scandals show the need for better procurement practices in government. The 'VIP lane' for PPE procurement showed the need for greater accountability in how government spends public money. The UK government spends up to £400bn each year on buying in goods and services.
22 mai 2024 · Investing in prevention could save money and improve productivity – so is it time for government to rethink public service spending? 22 MAY 2024 Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00 — 15:00 (BST)
Labour has come to power promising to lead a ‘mission-driven government’ and on the basis of a manifesto that focused on its five national ‘missions’. The party has defined this as working: “towards long-term national goals” with “departments working together rather than in silos. Business working with unions.
7 juin 2024 · The civil service has had a difficult parliament. The political tumult of 2022 resulted in three different prime ministers, and 67 cabinet appointments in a calendar year. 14 IfG Ministers Database This followed the fallout of the partygate scandal in 2021 and – in 2020 – Boris Johnson’s ‘hard rain’ reforms, the defenestration of a succession of permanent secretaries, and of course ...
6 juil. 2024 · Keir Starmer holds his first press conference as prime minister. Labour’s remarkable majority does not just present us with a whole new cast of political leaders, Hannah White says, it presents the country with an opportunity to do government better. Over the past decade, government has been buffeted by a series of external shocks that have ...
1 août 2024 · More broadly defined, regulation is the use of rules, incentives and penalties to change the behaviour of individuals or organisations. 2 While rules may be set out in law, this is not always the case. Regulation involves not only setting standards, but monitoring performance against them and enforcing compliance. 3.
