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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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
There is now a strong body of evidence of what interventions are most effective in improving health in low- and middle-income countries but little is known about how to ensure widespread coverage in the population. Weak ...
Funded by: MRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The project partially answers the question as it focuses on the delivery of public services in the public sector, but does not specifically address organizational change.
The knowledge exchange will facilitate the development of a network of policy makers and practitioners who will work with social science researchers to analyse and respond to the challenges of performance assessment in p...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
The project partially answers the question as it explores performance assessment in public services, but does not specifically address organizational change in the public sector.
The research asks why some administrative organizations are created then reorganized, merged, or terminated, whereas others are seemingly 'immortal' and even can become more powerful than the elected politicians that cre...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
The project partially answers the question as it investigates the structure and organization of government, but does not specifically focus on organizational change in the public sector.