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Working to make government more effective

Nicholas Timmins

Senior Fellow

Nicholas Timmins is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the King’s Fund. Between 1996 and 2011, he was public policy editor of the Financial Times.

Nicholas is also a visiting professor in social policy at the London School of Economics, and a senior associate of the Nuffield Trust.

27 MAR 2026 Report

The 15-year story of Universal Credit

04 JUL 2025 Comment

Labour’s 10 Year Health Plan: familiar ideas could be frustrated by familiar problems

14 MAR 2025 Comment

Keir Starmer's decision to abolish NHS England is a high-risk strategy

24 OCT 2013 Comment

The monitors split on Monitor

03 JUL 2013 Comment

Designed to fail: the Care Quality Commission is a warning to quango cullers

25 MAR 2013 Comment

Are public inquiries worth the time, money and resources?

There are many challenges to running a public inquiry.

06 FEB 2013 Comment

Mid-Staffs report should be the start of a debate not the automatic solution

The Mid-Staffs report should be read carefully

04 JUL 2012 Report

Never Again? The story of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

The story of how the Health and Social Care Act 2012 – by far the most controversial piece of NHS legislation in more than two decades – became law.