This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at https://ari.org.uk/ by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.
What is the range of productivity performance across public services in the UK? What are the characteristics of highest productivity public services and what needs to happen to raise productivity in lower productivity services? How could existing measures of public sector productivity be further improved? Which countries have the highest productivity in their delivery of public services? What lessons can the UK learn from international best practice?
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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