Day 7 of our festive '12 days to remake the State' Today... devolve fiscal firepower! You should check out the mini blog series if for no other reason than the images are just so good (as are the ideas of course!) 🔥🎄 re-state.co.uk/rethink/12-d...

🎄 ‘Tis the season of hope and gifting. And in that festive spirit, we gift you this uplifting series of mini blogs. 🎁 For our second day of remaking the State, Director @charliepickles.bsky.social calls for an acceleration to the rationalisation of our public bodies re-state.co.uk/rethink/12-d...

Our pre-Christmas gift to you... '12 days to remake the State' Starting today, we'll open a new door on the @re-state.bsky.social advent calendar to reveal a bold idea to remake the State Just bringing the wonky festive cheer! Day 1: 'Give the gift of Governors' re-state.co.uk/rethink/12-d...

🗣️ New Meetings with Mayors alert! 🗣️ Re:State’s Policy Director, Dr Simon Kaye, will be in conversation with Helen Godwin Mayor of the West of England, for the 8th event in our Meetings with Mayors series. 🕚 11:00am 🔗 Register here: lnkd.in/eGjjJegy

Ahead of this afternoon’s Budget, the promise of a new tourist tax looks like progress — but it barely scratches the surface. Research Assistant, Laxshia Ganesharatnam, writes about the gulf between one revenue stream and meaningful fiscal devolution. re-state.co.uk?p=12472&prev...

At some point we have to *actually* take tough public spending decisions Promising cash today for reform tomorrow is irresponsible (see blog) I hope the Budget has some rabbits but right now it looks like further expanding an increasingly unsustainable welfare state re-state.co.uk/rethink/the-...

So proud of the team today. First place for Think Tanker and second for Think Tank of the Year. We're a tiny (9 people), scrappy think tank with limited resources, risking saying what we really think. Hall of Famer Dirk Nowitzki once described JJ Barea as 'undersized, but all heart'. That's us.

Today we've published our latest Hospital of the Future paper What's the answer to corridor care, backlogs & the Winter Crisis? More doctors, more beds NO! @rosiebeacon.bsky.social @alicesemark.bsky.social have the actual, evidenced solutions- as ever cutting through the bullshit 👏

Delighted to see this endorsement from Daniel Elkeles, Chief Executive of @nhsproviders.bsky.social, for our new paper 'Ending the Patient Gridlock' – out today as part of our Hospital of the Future programme. Read the paper here: re-state.co.uk/publications...

Extremely grateful for this endorsement from the inimitable Stephen Black - exactly how we hoped this paper would be received. Read the paper here: re-state.co.uk/publications...

"It's the year 2040, and Dame Louise Casey has been asked to lead a taskforce to tackle the [insert institution failure]. This is her 234th review/taskforce in the past 15 years. Her commission on social care is now due to report in 2042" A slightly tongue-in-cheek but deadly serious blog from me

That's a wrap. Labour party conference 2025 is done. Brilliant work by the @re-state.bsky.social team - but a special shout out to Beth who bossed the whole thing 👏

The PM is announcing the government is setting up a virtual hospital This is game changing - & a reform we exclusively called for in our paper paper out a few months ago: 'Hospital as a service, not a building' Huge win for @rosiebeacon.bsky.social & @alicesemark.bsky.social Real world impact 👏

In our latest Re:Think, Policy Director, @stkaye.bsky.social explores the big themes from our event with Sarah Olney MP at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference last weekend. Check it out here: re-state.co.uk/rethink/libe...

Really proud of this new project We've put our money where our mouth is and launched the Re:State Leaders Network, a programme to support senior civil servants to lead during a time of immense complexity and challenge Read @jo3hill.bsky.social on the why and what 👇

Hospitals are struggling with productivity. That means fewer patients seen and treated. This new paper from @floconway.bsky.social and @rosiebeacon.bsky.social lays out the quick wins that automation could deliver - not only for productivity but also patient safety and workforce satisfaction 👇

The hospital is a unique economic unit. Incredibly understudied, even in an NHS which has accidentally (and incorrectly) been plugging more and more resource into secondary care over the last two decades. Automation has huge potential. Great new paper today from the team.

If you're at Conservative Party Conference this year, don't miss what will be a fascinating conversation on a Conservative vision to remake the State, with Claire Coutinho MP, Alex Burghart MP, and @charliepickles.bsky.social Email [email protected] to attend!

Today: Policy Director, Joe Hill, writes to The Rt Hon Darren Jones MP, newly appointed Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with his take on where focus should lie. re-state.co.uk/rethink/resh...

⭐ Special blog series: Re:Shuffle ⭐ We’re marking the ministerial reshuffle with daily open letters from our researchers to newly appointed ministers – setting out what we think should top their priority list for better public services.

Looking forward to joining Newsnight tonight to discuss, well, a whole lot of politics!!

Should one national agency really hold the keys to solving England’s housing crisis? In our latest Re:Think, Researcher, @coryberman.bsky.social , writes about why Homes England should be abolished and its powers devolved to local leaders. Read the blog here 👇 re-state.co.uk/rethink/home...

👀 One more sleep... Cracking read from the @re-state.bsky.social Local State team @stkaye.bsky.social If you want ambitious devolution, you can't leave central government machinery as is 👇

I'm all for professionalising the role of Special Advisers, e.g. with much better admin support. But the civil service can only do so much - politicians need to lead. In 'Grown up government' @re-state.bsky.social argued for a new model, with more Spads, paid better re-state.co.uk/publications...

This opening line from @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social to the BMA is absolutely 🔥 "I never left"

There is so much more the centre of government could do to be effective - including significantly bolstering the Prime Minister’s team. But a starting point should be far more political appointees, rather than layering more SCS jobs on top of the Cabinet Office. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

As the great Ronnie Coleman once said, "everybody wants to be a [devolver] but nobody wants to [draw the map]". But luckily @stkaye.bsky.social and @seaneke.bsky.social have! Great to see in our paper, out today. Already picking out which province I want to be the Governor of. Which do you want? 🔗👇

📢NEW REPORT: 'GO BIG OR GO HOME' The 'devolution revolution' may yet result in small and underpowered Strategic Authorities in England's low-density, rural, and polycentric places. This report proposes a system of full-scale Provinces to ensure England's regions can take flight.

1. Further signs of an easing labour market with payroll employment & vacancies down again. Clear sectoral differences with retail & hospitality payrolls down 170k but showing largest pay rises as NMW changes kick in. Usual data caveats with both LFS & HMRC data so need to be cautious.

Researcher, @floconway.bsky.social, has written about the urgent need for Govt to act following another child death from measles Check out her piece here👇 re-state.co.uk/rethink/we-b...

We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

The Alternative People Survey, a Re:State-CSW collaboration, shows that many of those within the civil service see the flaws, are fed up with the system, and want to see real change, writes @charliepickles.bsky.social www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article...

Fantastic to publish this today in partnership with @civilserviceworld.bsky.social. I filled out the official People Survey for seven years as an official. It's a great bit of organisational feedback. But I always wished they'd ask some other questions... So now we have!

Report launch eve @re-state.bsky.social! Standby.

We read it so you don't have to! Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there. Read below 👇🔗 re-state.co.uk/react/react-...

& we’re off! Our flagship ‘Re:Imagining Health’ conference at Salesforce Tower begins Starting with an ‘In conversation’ with hospital CEOs. We’re thrilled to be joined by Dr Nnenna Osuji, North Middlesex Hospitals, and Richard Mitchell, University Hospitals Leicester and Northamptonshire 🏥

An absolutely brilliant start to our @re-state.bsky.social ‘Reimagining Health’ conference Two inspiring trust chief execs speaking candidly and optimistically about the future of the health system

Senior civil servants can’t speak on panels and do Q&A but the head of the NHS can do interviews with the telegraph…

The Re:View is out!🎉 This week, our Director, @charliepickles.bsky.social, reflects on the first of the government's Spending Review plans, ‘UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy’, and the Stuart Review... Read here 👉 re-state.co.uk/review/revie...

And we’re off! Great start to the day at our annual Re:Imagining Whitehall conference. @charliepickles.bsky.social reflecting on why this matters @stkaye.bsky.social chairing our first panel on mission government Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary at DfE on early years

*Boom* ready for our annual Reimagining Whitehall conference 🔥

Also includes a great line from @charliepickles.bsky.social about the importance of delivering on your priorities in office: “The gap between policy and delivery is where populism lives and grows.”

Can this Government deliver? Our Director @charliepickles.bsky.social spoke to The Rundown with @politicshome.bsky.social about how the Government is getting on with its priorities. Have a listen 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

What does the Spending Review mean? We've got you covered with our usual snap analysis 👍 The good 👎 The bad ⚖️ The jury's out 🧐 The M.I.A. Read our Re:Act here 👇 re-state.co.uk/react/react-...

Today, we're thrilled to see @england.nhs.uk announce a huge increase in robotics assisted surgeries in the NHS🏥 We are the only think tank who has comprehensively called for more robotics surgeries and detailed how to do this! Read our paper here: re-state.co.uk/publications...

Prior to the Spending Review tomorrow, Head of Health @rosiebeacon.bsky.social has written about our newest proposal for Remote General Hospitals and why this is important for the public finances 💸 re-state.co.uk/rethink/30-b...

Today we welcome @coryberman.bsky.social and @joemartin25.bsky.social to the Re:State team! Give them a follow to see more of our thinking and research.

This is madness if true £30bn more for NHS *at the cost* of spending on the stuff that *reduces* demand on the NHS Ageing & increasingly unhealthy pop’n? Ah, must ensure that effective social care & health creating services are in place via local government. Right? Right? Mad.

£105 billion. @labourgrowth.bsky.social. & the upcoming spending review. A short blog on why prioritisation, bold reform & a hard grip on the public finances is essential re-state.co.uk/rethink/poli...

Bang on from @labourgrowth.bsky.social. There is no trade-off free spending, & no public service investment w/out growth. We’re spending more than £100bn on debt interest. Get a grip. Love this quote from @chriscurtis94.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/92ea...