All posts by Catherine Early

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  From reaction to reform: preparing health services for the next COVID challenge

  The pandemic has driven rapid reforms to healthcare as officials maintained service delivery while protecting patients and staff. But exhausted workforces now face new demands: at a GGF webinar, health

  • Posted December 15, 2020
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  UK energy policymakers should learn from overseas and gather external advice, report finds

  The UK government should learn lessons from Canada, Germany, France and the Netherlands to improve its energy policymaking, according to new research by the Institute for Government (IfG) think tank.

  • Posted December 9, 2020
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  End short-term thinking and focus on delivery, civil service reform panel told

  The UK civil service must look beyond policymaking to focus on implementation and delivery, former senior political advisers told an influential panel examining civil service reform last week. Jonathan Powell,

  • Posted December 7, 2020
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  Who’s who? A round-up of Joe Biden’s foreign policy and national security picks

  President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled key members of his foreign policy and national security team. His picks include the first immigrant to serve as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary;

  • Posted December 3, 2020
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  UK review urges mandatory transparency on use of algorithms in public sector

  There should be a “mandatory transparency obligation” for UK public sector organisations that use algorithms to make decisions affecting people’s lives, an independent review has advised. The Centre for Data

  • Posted December 1, 2020
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  With crisis comes opportunity: economic sustainability and the argument for going green

  Governments around the world have had no choice but to roll out vast stimulus packages in a bid to keep economies afloat during the coronavirus crisis. At a recent GGF

  • Posted September 27, 2020
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  Johnson forges ahead with civil service shake-up

  UK prime minister Boris Johnson is moving policy advisers out of Downing Street and into the Cabinet Office as part of wider plans to ensure that No 10, the Treasury

  • Posted August 14, 2020
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  Saudi Arabia signs off on Artificial Intelligence policy

  King Salman Bin Abdulaziz has approved Saudi Arabia’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, which is expected to contribute an estimated 500 billion riyals (US$133 billion) to gross domestic product (GDP) by

  • Posted August 13, 2020
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  UK government identity system still poses risk

  The Verify identity verification programme continues to pose “notable risks” to the Cabinet Office due to challenges in delivery, according to the department’s annual report and accounts. The programme provides

  • Posted August 12, 2020
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  Trump moves to restrict outsourcing of federal work

  President Donald Trump has taken further steps to prevent US government departments and agencies using foreign workers following a row with the nation’s largest utility. Heads of government departments have

  • Posted August 12, 2020
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