Regulation has an important role to play in public services – particularly those, such as the UK's National Health Service (NHS), that manage high levels of risk, where good leadership, processes and governance are of paramount importance to safety. This report focuses on trust leaders’ views and experience of regulation during 2023/24.

Most of the money that flows to the UK's National Health Service now goes through Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) designed to simplify, integrate and localise the management of key healthcare services. This short paper, based on interviews with those involved in ICSs, looks at how they can be made to work better.

The sustainability of healthcare systems around the world are under threat - with the way care is designed and delivered in need of reform. This paper compares the Welsh and Australian experience of exploring and implementing value-based health care.

This report examines the state of the UK state by focusing on the challenges facing the NHS, schools, and the justice system, which the next government will need to address. It also sets out a plan for progress.

‘Health policy’ is a slippery concept. In Britain, since the establishment of the National Health Service, it has often come to be associated only with the NHS, but it has a longer running and wider history. Health policy both predates the NHS and goes beyond it. This report provides an analytical overview of the history...