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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.
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SMF Briefing: Spending Choices after 2015 – Commitment Issues
The fourth paper in our 2015 Spending Choices series examines the spending commitments made by parties before the election; the effect of these commitments on other budgets; and, the purpose of protection or 'ringfencing' specific spending areas from cuts.
| Published: | 09 March 2015 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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Putting Patients in Charge: The future of health and social care
All political parties now acknowledge the importance of more integrated - or person-centred - care. The challenge is now how to pursue this during the next parliament. This paper attempts to tackle how commissioning and funding would work in an integrated health and care service.
| Published: | 04 March 2015 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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A Problem Shared? Essays on the integration of health and social care
With contributions from leading politicians, experts and those on the front line, the collection sets out views on the future role of commissioners, providers, patients and family carers, and sets out alternative perspectives on future funding for the NHS and social care.
| Published: | 19 February 2015 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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SMF Briefing: Spending Choices after 2015 – Investing for Growth
The third paper in our Spending Choices series examines what types of government spending are good for economic growth; what the different parties have committed to post-2015; and, which areas the next government will need to focus growth-friendly spending on.
| Published: | 13 February 2015 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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SMF Briefing: Spending Choices after 2015 – A Deficit of Growth II
In this update of our original spending choices briefing we find that meeting deficit reduction targets is now much more dependent on greater productivity growth than has so far been assumed
| Published: | 27 January 2015 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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SMF Briefing: Choosing to succeed – Do parents pick the right schools?
Drawing on new data from the Millennium Cohort Study, this briefing provides evidence that academic quality is far from the main driver in parental choice of schools, particularly among low income households.
| Published: | 16 January 2015 |
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| Author: | Gabrielle Leroux |
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SMF Briefing: Spending choices after 2015 – A Deficit of Growth
In the lead up to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, our briefing reveals the scale of the deficit waiting for the next Government with newly updated numbers.
| Published: | 23 November 2014 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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Breaking Bad Habits: Reforming rehabilitation services
This report analyses the Coalition government's Transforming Rehabilitation proposals and provides new analysis on the possible impacts of the reforms.
| Published: | 28 April 2014 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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SMF Briefing: Osborne’s New Choice – Autumn Statement 2013
The Social Market Foundation has published a briefing document entitled Osborne's New Choice ahead of the Autumn Statement exploring the Chancellor's plan to target a surplus on the structural current budget by 2017/18.
| Published: | 03 December 2013 |
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| Author(s): | Leonora Merry, Nida Broughton |