How is demand for public services expected to vary ten, twenty, thirty years from now? What will be the main sources of changing demand? What actions need to be taken now to best prepare?
Background
The most difficult challenges faced by our public services are complex and cross-cutting. Increasing efficiency alone will not be enough to tackle these challenges, nor for public services to keep pace with the continuing pressures they face to do more with less. To that end, our areas of research interest focus on better understanding the challenges and opportunities in the delivery of public services in the future, including the demand for the public services, making more effective use of data, reducing ethnic disparities and being more diverse and inclusive, and the level of productivity in the public sector.
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Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the demand and supply side of health and social care, which are major components of public services.
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