Just About Managing
Download Publication Online Reader NHS management is back firmly in the spotlight amid significant operational pressures (including long waits for care), poor patient satisfaction (at its lowest levels since the early 1980s), high-profile cases of abuse and anaemic productivity growth since the pandemic. This new report from Policy Exchange – based upon more than forty interviews and the findings of...
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Download Publication Download Polling We have entered a new era of increasingly disruptive protests. This report shows how decisions made by the police, prosecutors, courts, Parliament and Government mean that undue weight is being placed on the rights and interests of disruptive (and, at times, criminal) activists at the expense of the rights, wellbeing and interests of ordinary members of...
Read MoreStrengthening the UK’s Food Security
Download Publication Online Reader A new report from Policy Exchange, ‘Strengthening the UK’s Food Security: Innovation and investment in the Food Manufacturing Sector’, calls for the urgent need for the Government to develop a National Food Security Strategy that encompasses the entire food ecosystem – after years of high food price inflation and supply chains disrupted by the pandemic, the...
Read MoreProvably Popular Homes
Download Publication Online Reader Following the announcement that the words ‘beauty’ and ‘beautiful’ were to be effectively stripped from the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) — no longer to be strategic planning requirements for new housing — this Policy Exchange report calls for a new polling mechanism to establish public popularity of new buildings. This is a vital tool in...
Read MoreBeauty and Socialism
Download Publication Download ‘Provably Popular Homes’ ‘Following the announcement that the words ‘beauty’ and ‘beautiful’ were to be effectively stripped from the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) — no longer to be strategic planning requirements for new housing — this new paper from Policy Exchange makes the urgent case for ‘beauty’ to be at the heart of Labour’s...
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From the Telegraph to the Cloud
Download Publication Online Reader In the aftermath of digital and transportational sabotage at the Olympic games, and the revelation that it was a Chinese ship which damaged the Balticconnector pipeline last year, Policy Exchange today urges the UK Government to develop a more integrated approach to developing and protecting the six critical technologies of the future. The report,...
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Full Steam Ahead
Download Publication Online Reader A new report from Policy Exchange – “Full Steam Ahead: Delivering an Abundance of Train Drivers” sets out how a mass recruitment campaign, modelled on the successful HGV Driver Bootcamp programme, could solve the UK’s shortage of train drivers and fix Britain’s railways. The report exposes how the shortage of train drivers strengthens the power of the trade...
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Growing Pension Capital
Download Publication Following the Chancellor’s recent announcement that the new Labour Government would actively look at pension market reform, Policy Exchange has published a new paper setting out what might be learnt from the Australia’s superannuation model. Growing Pension Capital – co-authored by Chris Mahon and Policy Exchange’s Head of Political Economy James Vitali – argues that the UK regulatory...
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The Sofa Voter
Download Publication Download Polling In the immediate aftermath of the General Election, Policy Exchange commissioned exclusive polling on perhaps the most poorly understood voter group in the country: the stay-at-home voter. Four million more people opted not to cast a ballot this year than in 2019. These results are concerning and indicate a growing cohort of people who...
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Mission Critical
‘Mission Critical’ states that a ruthless prioritisation of policy will be required from the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to provide clarity and confidence in the new Government’s reform agenda for the NHS and care services over the ‘first hundred days’. Examining the sixty pledges made by the Labour Party across health and care over the...
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