This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at reforming health and social care. People are spending more years in sickness than ever before. The number of deaths that could have been avoided with timely healthcare or public health interventions is much higher in the UK than in all other comparable European nations. This is...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at findings from the State of the Union survey. Brexit revealed stark differences in attitudes across the UK. It not only revealed different attitudes within and between the UK’s constituent units towards the European Union but it also revealed the ambivalence of attitudes towards the union of...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at how to work towards a new public employment service. The UK’s employment support system is characterised by three core flaws. It is failing to meet the needs of our current or future economy. Extrinsic motivation is crowding out personal ambitions. Provision is too narrow and focussed...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a coordinated set of policy instruments for achieving green growth. Achieving green growth is one of the most important economic opportunities of the 21st century and also among the greatest challenges. If the UK gets this right it could deliver a boost in its long-term economic...

This report from UK think tank IPPR sets out the in-tray for the UK government after the next general election for the main parts of the asylum system. With a general election expected in the next 12-18 months, the UK’s asylum system is in crisis. The backlog is at over 130,000 cases, the system is...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at how the nature of our health and healthcare has changed profoundly. Since the NHS’ first day in 1948, the nature of our health has changed profoundly. Infectious diseases are less prominent. Median survival following a cancer diagnosis has increased 600 per cent. Long-term conditions like dementia...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at what it would mean to truly ‘level up’ the bus network and bring all of England’s metropolitan areas up to London's level. Buses play a crucial role in the lives of people in England. From the daily commute and trip to school or university, to shopping...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the effectiveness of different rhetorical approaches to framing democratic reform. Dissatisfaction with how democracy works has been rising for more than a decade. For the first time since the mid-1970s, a clear majority of people in Britain are dissatisfied with democracy, and recent scandals in British...

This report from UK think tank IPPR is the final report of the IPPR health and care workforce assembly. England’s health and care sector is in a deep workforce crisis. This is not because we have less staff overall. Rather, it’s because of a growing and sustained mismatch between worker-demand and worker-supply. A vicious cycle...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at building a better, greener planning system that empowers local places. What we build, how we build it and where we build it impacts every aspect of our lives: our environment; the economy, and how and where we live and travel to work. In recent years, the...