Florence Conway

It was great to have Minister @georgiagould.bsky.social deliver a keynote speech at our flagship 'Re:Imagining Whitehall' conference yesterday

But if you missed it, don't worry!

Policy Director, @jo3hill.bsky.social, has written his three key takeaways from the session

Evidence submission: PACAC Mission government - Re:State

Nearly a year into government, and two years since the Government's missions were announced, how's it going?

Today we have published our evidence to the House of Commons and their inquiry into mission government. It draws on our paper 'Mission control' from 2024.

re-state.co.uk/publications...

"The problem in Britain today is that when those trade-offs involve risk, we too often default to the status quo, and the consequences are becoming severe."

There is no alternative to a radical rewiring of Whitehall.

@chriscurtis94.bsky.social makes the case 👉

re-state.co.uk/publications...

What’s in a name? Nigel Farage forces Westminster think tank to rebrand The Reform think tank will now be known as Re:State.

The long-established Reform think tank, which has been offering ideas to Westminster policymakers for almost 25 years, will now be known as Re:State.

Whitehall needs to shrink so empowered regions can grow

Lord Jim O'Neill on why we need to go further with devolution, including giving tax raising powers

Read his argument here - re-state.co.uk/publications...

check out what Paul Johnson has to say on remaking the State

Brilliant to have @claire-ainsley.bsky.social making the case for a better State in our essay collection marking the launch of our new name

READ her full article, & 22 others, here: re-state.co.uk/publications...

"The years ahead must be ones not of managed decline, but of renewal. It's time to be bold. It's time to remake the State. Re:State: welcome back."

Read former Cab Sec Lord Sedwill in our essay collection 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...

so exciting to have such a great collection of thoughts from leaders across the political spectrum to launch our rebrand

check it out👇

@re-state.bsky.social

🗣️And we're live with Policy Director, @stk.bsky.social, speaking to Mayor Richard Parker as part of our 'Meetings with Mayors' series

If you don't want to miss out you can still sign up on the link below 👇

Great to kick off our Beyond Whitehall conference at the Darlington Economic Campus with an in conversation with Beth Russell!

Onto our first panel exploring how to effectively share best practice across government, with Ravi Chand, James Farrar and Dr Jennifer Manuel.

After lunch we're onto our second panel, looking at how to support local economies with Tom Bryant (TVCA), Rose Rouse (Darlington BC), Silkie Whitworth (MHCLG) and Matt Russell (DWP).

The blog is out🥳

Policy Director, @jo3hill.bsky.social, reflects on yesterday's 'Inside No10' panel where we heard insights from four leading No.10 figures from the last decade...

The policy-industrial complex - REFORM

How does policymaking survive in an age of automation?

Our blog today, by @patrickking.bsky.social, looks at the future of what he calls the 'policy-industrial complex'👇

reform.uk/comment/the-...

The Plan for Neighbourhoods has the potential to genuinely reset communities and areas for the better;

and importantly, they are going to be led by local leaders

but how to make them most effective? check out my thoughts... 👇

V excited for this next week! 🔥

What's it really like working inside Downing Street? What works, what doesn't? How does the machine need to change?

Honoured to contribute to this excellent and very timely report on #neighbourhoodhealth from @reformthinktank.bsky.social @patrickking.bsky.social @floconway.bsky.social definitely for @adphuk.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social @lgawellbeing.bsky.social @evefrancisholt.bsky.social @smhopkins.bsky.social

it was great to work on this with @patrickking.bsky.social and discover so many great examples of integrated health services designed by local leaders, with local people, for local people

W the 10yr Plan looming, Govt must make sure the conditions are there so that more of this can thrive...

Senior researcher @patrickking.bsky.social and Researcher @floconway.bsky.social recently visited the Bromley-By-Bow centre to learn about innovative models of primary care 👩‍⚕️

This was to inform our new report, designing a neighbourhood health service, out tomorrow👀

A big day in @reformthinktank.bsky.social towers yday as the pipeline from research to visible impact suddenly became very short

As ever, announcing is much easier than implementing. So I wanted to re-share the reports that detail our thinking, to help w/ next steps🧵

Close enough to care: A new structure for the English health and care system - REFORM In Reimagining Health: a framing paper, Reform set out the case for a radical new approach to health. Close enough to care is the first of a series of papers setting out root and branch reform of the ...

Check out our major report from last year, calling for the abolition of NHSE and the move to a devolved health system:

reform.uk/publications...

Is the NHS impossible to lead? - REFORM

A few wks ago I asked whether NHSE is impossible to lead... and I guess Govt agreed...!

At @reformthinktank.bsky.social, we have written extensively on the need for greater devolution in the health service to deliver a truly preventative, ppl-centred health system

reform.uk/comment/is-t...

I write in @labourlist.bsky.social on why the PM’s decision to focus on the performance of public bodies should be applauded 👇

t.co/YUsP8ijz48

Civil service reform has a tendency to focus on policy & a proportionately small number employed in SW1.

If the PM is serious about rewiring the State, he must also focus on the 60% of day-to-day spending through public bodies.

A quick🧵on our report Quangocracy, from last week

When we talk about ‘rewiring the State’, this is the big prize that very few governments have thought strategically about or gripped.

Delighted to have our report on the future of public bodies out today.

State of the State 2025 - REFORM

Researcher, @floconway.bsky.social wrote a blog on the three takeaways from the report preview panel

Read it here:
reform.uk/comment/stat...

Is the NHS impossible to lead? - REFORM

Read the blog here:
reform.uk/comment/is-t...

🏥With the news that Amanda Pritchard is stepping down as Chief Executive of NHS England, researcher @floconway.bsky.social asks:

Is the NHS impossible to lead?

and

What steps need to be taken to make the health system one that works for the public?