Public Service Reform Articles

When we come to look back at the history of the NHS over the current decade, with closure of local services causing anguish across the country, we may see this as the time when we were bound overly tightly to the idea that the clinician always knows best. Indeed, this...

In an interview with Progress last year, Labour’s shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle called for East Coast trains to remain in the public sector in the long term. At the time this represented a shift in the party’s policy. When the previous operator National...

The publication of the Francis report on the scandal at Mid-Staffs has prompted a grown-up debate with both the coalition and Labour giving considered responses. Both parties rightly promised to avoid a river of new regulations but key differences in approach...

There is a quiet revolution going on in England’s schools. They have discovered that implementing controversial Labour legislation on trust schools and academies, coupled with the coalition’s manic passion for the latter, does not mean that school communities must be...