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Public Services
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.
Latest Publications:
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Science, Risk and the Media: Do the front pages reflect reality?
This collection of transcripts highlights the main issues surrounding this debate, as well as making recommendations for improving communication for policy makers, the media, scientists and the public.
| Published: | 03 March 2006 |
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| Author: | Jaqueline Cassidy |
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Implementing the 10-Year Childcare Strategy
In 2005, the Social Market Foundation, in partnership with Bright Horizons Family Solutions, hosted two seminars exploring the implications of the government's 10 Year Strategy for childcare in the UK. This publications summarises the discussions which took place, representing an important contribution to the ongoing discussions around the Strategy.
| Published: | 21 February 2006 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |
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Charging Ahead? Spreading the costs of modern public services
This report outlines the current pattern of co-payment in the UK and debates whether there is a case for introducing or extending co-payment into new areas of public service provision.
| Published: | 14 February 2006 |
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| Author: | Jessica Asato |
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Registering Choice: How primary care should change to meet patient needs
In this paper Professor Corrigan explains why patient demand must be organised more effectively to trigger new and different forms of primary care.
| Published: | 13 December 2005 |
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| Author: | Paul Corrigan |
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No More School Run
This paper argues that we should introduce a dedicated school bus network of the type used in North America, whilst examining the educational, environmental and social benefits that would result from a network of dedicated school buses in the UK.
| Published: | 21 June 2005 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |
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News Broadcasting in the Digital age – The need for PSB genre licences
This publications sets out the argument for the introduction of 'genre' licences, providing commercial broadcasters with the opportunity to bid for financial support to provide specific public service broadcasting (PSB) programming, specifically news programmes, paid for by 'top-slicing' the BBC licence fee.
| Published: | 14 February 2005 |
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| Author: | Ann Rossiter |
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Reform Works
In this volume, several junior ministers argue that reform of public services is the natural concomitant of equity and efficiency and set out the direction of future travel.
| Published: | 09 February 2005 |
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| Author: | Philip Collins |
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Limits of the Market, Constraints of the State: the public good and the NHS
In this essay, published in January 2005, Secretary of State for Health Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP sets out the case for extending patient choice within the NHS.
| Published: | 12 January 2005 |
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| Author: | John Reid |
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To the point: A Blueprint for Good Targets
This report is a thorough examination of the government's use of targets in four public services: education, health, housing and the criminal justice system.
| Published: | 09 January 2005 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |