Performance Tracker
Our flagship report with CIPFA assesses the comparative problems faced by critical public services such as the NHS, schools and the police.
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Performance Tracker 2022: Adult social care
In 2020/21, the threat of Covid discouraged older people from coming forward for care. But demand is on the rise.
Performance Tracker 2022: Hospitals
The NHS is still struggling with the effects of the pandemic, while factors outside of Covid continue to put hospitals under intense pressure.
Performance Tracker 2022: General practice
In the third year of the pandemic, general practice is attempting to cope with a huge surge in demand, putting pressure on an overstretched workforce.
Performance Tracker 2022: Summary
While there are interconnected structural failures that will not be easy to address, there are steps that the government can take.
Performance Tracker 2022: Cross-service analysis
This year’s Performance Tracker assesses how nine public services have coped with the effects of the pandemic.
Performance Tracker 2022: Methodology
Background information on our research for each spending area
The 2021 spending review: the pressures on public services after the pandemic
The Institute for Government and CIPFA launch the sixth edition of Performance Tracker.
Performance Tracker 2021
The pandemic has created huge backlogs in public services – failing to address these backlogs now will push up costs in future.
Performance Tracker 2020
The coronavirus crisis has resulted in backlogs across public services, including at record levels in the criminal courts.
Boris Johnson must now deliver his promised plan to fix social care
Boris Johnson now owns responsibility for fixing a broken social care system.
A cross-party parliamentary commission is the best way to build lasting social care reform
A parliamentary commission remains the best option to build lasting social care reform.
Policing pledges could spell trouble for the criminal justice system
The main parties’ pledges to increase police numbers may not be enough to effectively deal with crime, and could create issues further down the line.
Both parties' new fiscal rules don’t address the challenges facing public services
The fiscal splurges of the election campaign trail fail to address the clear pressures in public services.
Performance Tracker 2019
Performance Tracker 2019 projects the demand and spending on nine public services for the next five years.
The government’s criminal justice proposals don’t add up
Current criminal justice plans don’t address how to improve standards in prisons and will leave a hole in their budgets.
Performance Tracker 2018
Government is quietly shifting costs of public services on to individuals.
Public services in 2018: performance and pressure
This event launched the third edition of Performance Tracker, a data-driven analysis of the performance of key public services from the Institute for
Performance Tracker: Autumn 2017
Our analysis reveals the key decision points that the Chancellor faces in the run-up to his first Autumn Budget.
Performance Tracker: Spring 2017
Until recently the Government managed to maintain the quality of public services while controlling spending. But this approach has now run out of stea