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...

Love this from @jo3hill.bsky.social on the Spending Review and why the 'isn't the Treasury the problem' argument is so misguided... re-state.co.uk/rethink/trea...

This is v good & so important from @stephenkb.bsky.social Setting aside clear evidence that knowledge-based ed'n systems = better results than skills-based (eg Scotland), the foundational truth that applying skills requires knowledge is so well illustrated here www.ft.com/content/1369...

Nearly a year into government, and two years since the Government's missions were announced, how's it going? Today we have published our evidence to the House of Commons and their inquiry into mission government. It draws on our paper 'Mission control' from 2024. re-state.co.uk/publications...

🏥Hospital staff levels have increased significantly, while demand has been stable. Yet patient satisfaction is at an all time low & spending is at an all time high. This cannot go on! Yday we published ‘Hospital as a service, not a building’, outlining our solutions👇

Time to meet the health team at Re:State! While at its inception the NHS was visionary, three quarters of a century later, with demand rising and outcomes deteriorating, a bold and urgent rethink is needed. This programme explores what that should look like.

Everythingism doesn't happen overnight, it's the slow accumulation of "kludge" in policymaking until no good policy can be made. Enjoyed talking to @stellathegreek.bsky.social for Left on Red about Everythingism, civil service reform, and our work @re-state.bsky.social. Full video linked 👇

The Re:View is out! 🎉 We have revamped our usual reflection on what’s happened in the last seven days given our new incarnation as Re:State... This week our Director, @charliepickles.bsky.social, recaps our relaunch! Read here 👉https://re-state.co.uk/review/review-23-may-2025/

Was fun to chat to Annabelle at Politico about our rename, v grateful for the write-up! For the full read on Nigel nicking our name... www.politico.eu/newsletter/p...

Excited to publish this today! If the Government want to slash wait times by the end of this Parliament, they should scrap the New Hospitals Programme & instead create Remote General Hospitals – hospital care without the hospital. And lots more...

A must read from @rosiebeacon.bsky.social @re-state.bsky.social 👇 #ReimaginingHealth

This is the price of all those "life saving" medicines we are introducing The opportunity cost has to fall somewhere Here is one of those places Siri ..... tell me again about "allocative efficiency"...... www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the...

Everyone talks about shifting care into the community & building a more preventative NHS, noone really talks about what that means for hospitals Well that's exactly the question @rosiebeacon.bsky.social, @alicesemark.bsky.social, @floconway.bsky.social have answered in this excellent new paper 👇

This portfolio of work is kindly supported by the Reimagining the Local State Advisory Group, including some huge names in the sector and the King of the North. Also, be sure to look out for our next 'Meetings with Mayors' with Oliver Coppard re-state.co.uk/event/in-con...