The NAO is launching a new dedicated team to highlight best practice in public sector productivity, against a backdrop of sustained pressure on public services and constrained public finances.
The government’s drive for efficiency savings is being hampered by poor quality data and a dependence on clunky, outdated systems, according to the National Audit Office.
The UK economy would be 3% bigger had public sector productivity kept pace with private sector performance, according to the headline finding of a report from Ernst & Young.
Public sector productivity rose by the fastest rate in two years, according to the latest ONS figures, but the rate still remains below pre-Covid levels.
The UK should overhaul its fiscal framework in order to drive sustainable growth, according to a policy paper from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research.
Minimising the effects of extreme heat could improve sleep, prevent billions of pounds in lost productivity a year, the Environmental Audit Committee has said.
Reversing the declining performance in the NHS, courts and education systems could take two parliamentary terms and require a “bold package of reforms”, the Institute for Public Policy Research has...
Additional funding to maintain and improve the NHS estate would play an important role in improving performance and productivity and stop staff working around a huge backlog, researchers have said.
The long-awaited NHS long-term workforce plan will fail to meet ambitious productivity targets without sustained investment in capital, technology and management, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has...
The fall in productivity since the onset of Covid-19 has meant the NHS has been unable to “secure the full benefits” of increased spending and staff numbers, the National Audit Office has warned.
Moving to a four-day working week for the public sector would boost productivity, create jobs and benefit the regions hit hardest by austerity, a report has argued.
Devolving around one-third of corporation tax to cities could help provide the local funding and incentives necessary to boost UK productivity, a report by the New Local Government Network has...
George Osborne is right that economic storm clouds are gathering. But changes to productivity forecasts show they aren’t in Asia or Europe: they are on our own horizon.
The International Monetary Fund has backed Chancellor George Osborne’s economic strategy this morning, but warned that the level of government borrowing remains one of the main risks to the UK’s...
Efforts to improve the productivity of the UK economy are being hindered by “fundamental flaws” in governance that means investment in infrastructure is insufficient to boost growth, a...
The government has published a plan to boost the economic productivity of rural parts of England, with devolution of powers to local authorities and improvements to connectivity among the priorities.
