Public service design and delivery

Innovative cross-cutting ideas underpin public service reform including productivity, devolution, service design and commissioning for better outcomes. . Reform researches these alongside its work on the individual part of the public sector.

The world is changing, and so can public services.

Publications

17th May 2021

Algorithmic transparency in the public sector

This event-write up brings together the ideas generated at Reform and Imperial College London’s The Forum, policy hackathon ‘Algorithmic transparency in the public sector’.

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29th April 2021

Radical transparency: the future of public procurement

This Reform perspectives argues that government should embrace new technologies to enable procurement data to flow more freely around government, in order to inform smarter spending decisions.

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7th April 2021

Time to update: Moving away from legacy IT in healthcare

This event-write up brings together the ideas generated at Reform and Amazon Web Services’ policy hackathon ‘Time to update: Moving away from legacy IT in healthcare’.

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Blogs

20 May 2021
By William Mills

Meg Hillier MP, Katie Perrior and Robert Nisbet join Reform’s Advisory Board.

Reform is today announcing three new members of its cross-party Advisory Board, chaired by Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan of Cotes, and including former Ministers Rt Hon Caroline Flint and G

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18 March 2021
By Deborah Cadman

Why We Need ‘Smart Devolution’

In Reform’s Resilient State essay collection, I reflected on my experiences as a local government leader

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5 March 2021
By William Mills

Event video: 'The Spring Budget: the good, the bad and the what now?'

We were delighted to host Rt Hon David Gauke, David Smith, Economics Editor, The Sunday Times, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, New Economics Foundation, to discuss the Chancellor's Spring Budget.

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Press

Reform responds to Public Accounts Committee PPE report

Responding to a Public Accounts Committee report criticising government PPE procurement, Aidan Shilson-Thomas, Reform procurement lead, said:

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