Charlotte Pickles
@ce_pickles
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Director of Re:State (formerly Reform think tank)
Joined August 2014
And that’s the Budget! Read our Re:Act to find out where we think the Chancellor has ducked the big decisions, and where the jury is still out.
Budget day means it's also Re:Act day! The Re:State team has been busily reading and analysing today's Budget to bring you a snap analysis that gets behind the spin to get to the deeper changes and their implications.
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Budget day means it's also Re:Act day! The Re:State team has been busily reading and analysing today's Budget to bring you a snap analysis that gets behind the spin to get to the deeper changes and their implications.
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This is one of those moments where a gov’nt can be judged on how serious they are about their stated priority Sky high energy costs are crippling business. Growth demands radical action You have the plan. Get the hell on with it Pleased to sign on behalf of @restate_thinks
Over 50 leading CEOs, entrepreneurs and experts are demanding the Government ACCEPT ALL the Nuclear Review recommendations. As the Budget approaches, this is how the PM and Chancellor can cut the cost of living and save British industry. Sign and share our letter 👇
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Great to support this open letter calling for the Chancellor to accept all the recommendations of John Fingleton's Nuclear taskforce in the Budget tomorrow, signed by @ce_pickles for Re:State!
Over 50 leading CEOs, entrepreneurs and experts are demanding the Government ACCEPT ALL the Nuclear Review recommendations. As the Budget approaches, this is how the PM and Chancellor can cut the cost of living and save British industry. Sign and share our letter 👇
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Over 50 leading CEOs, entrepreneurs and experts are demanding the Government ACCEPT ALL the Nuclear Review recommendations. As the Budget approaches, this is how the PM and Chancellor can cut the cost of living and save British industry. Sign and share our letter 👇
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Spending money now with promise of reform later is not serious governing Expanding the welfare state at a time when spending is spiralling in a totally unsustainable way is irresponsible Got v frustrated and wrote a blog 👇
✍Our latest Re:Think Ahead of tomorrow’s Budget, Re:State's Director, @ce_pickles, asks if politicians will finally confront the uncomfortable truth: without real reform, Britain is drifting towards an unaffordable welfare state and a public exhausted by rising taxes.
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The Government's line of "no money without reform" (NHS, welfare) has become "lots of money, and maybe some reform later". In tomorrow's Budget we can expect that to continue. Great blog from @ce_pickles.
✍Our latest Re:Think Ahead of tomorrow’s Budget, Re:State's Director, @ce_pickles, asks if politicians will finally confront the uncomfortable truth: without real reform, Britain is drifting towards an unaffordable welfare state and a public exhausted by rising taxes.
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This 👇
Are there any surveys reflecting what patients think (from patients) rather than what patients think (from GPs)? My doctor would have no idea what I think about this system or indeed my entire experience of the NHS
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Please to have contributed thoughts . Very much here for speeding up decision-making & delivery, very much don't think the biggest issue is the write-round process...
exc w/ @_tomscotson As part of the Whitehall delivery drive, government is looking at overhauling the 'write-round' process that's been used by Cabinet for years Frustrated insiders say it creates needless delays It'll be major reform if they go for it https://t.co/ayRbVmzJK6
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Very proud of Our Policy Director @jo3hill winning 'Think Tanker of the Year' at last night's inaugural @SmartThinktanks Awards
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So deserved 👏
Really pleased to win Think Tanker of the Year at the Smart Thinking Awards. Big thanks to @ce_pickles and @stkaye for taking a chance on hiring me in the first place. It’s been a wild two years in wonk land at @restate_thinks!
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Procurement reform. 1/6th of the UK economy doesn't work like the rest. The procurement market - where companies bid for govt contracts. It's overdue reform. Great to see our new paper 'Procure and simple' covered in The Timeswith support from Chris Curtis @LabourGrowth 🧵
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& huge congrats to @jo3hill & @sean_eke for another corker of a paper taking on popular things that are the wrong answer Read the paper here
re-state.co.uk
The Government spends £400 billion a year procuring goods and services, but regularly fails to secure value for the taxpayer from that spending. Public procurement is rife with projects which are...
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Another brilliant @restate_thinks paper, another @thetimes article covering it Today it's 'Procure and simple', on, you got it, overhauling public procurement to focus on, you know, buying things well & cheaply Might just catch on Grateful to @LabourGrowth for the support
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*BOOM* 🎤drop
Everybody wants to talk about Our NHS. But nobody wants to talk about R NHS, where R stands for “Rate of flow through hospitals”! Our new paper @restate_thinks explores how to fix hospital gridlock. Great to see it written up in the Times, well done @BeaconRosie @AliceKSemark
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& if you don't believe me, take it from NHS data legend @sib313 : "Too many think tank reports about the NHS produce waffle and accept tired cliches...This isn't one of those" You can read the paper here 👉
re-state.co.uk
Hospitals are enduring a fundamental crisis. Today’s hospitals face a perfect storm of rising costs, falling productivity and eroding patient trust. These are not signs of failure but of an outdated...
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Today we've published our latest 'Hospital of the Future' paper What's the answer to corridor care, backlogs & the Winter Crisis? More doctors, more beds NO! @BeaconRosie & @AliceKSemark have the actual, evidenced solutions- as ever cutting through the bullshit 👏
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"It's the year 2040, & Dame Louise Casey has been asked to lead a taskforce to tackle the [insert institution failure]. This is her 234th review/taskforce in the past 15 years. Her commission on social care is now due to report in 2042" Thoughts on our Whitehall superhero...
Dame Louise Casey has become the State’s go-to troubleshooter. But what does that say about Whitehall’s own capacity to solve problems? In our latest Re:Think, Director @ce_pickles asks why Whitehall keeps summoning the same hero to fix its failures. https://t.co/QcIBPjSXco
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This is insane. Treating adults like toddlers. Pretty confident, knowing Joe, that he’s just about capable of walking and carrying a cup of tea that has a lid on it
@GWRHelp is it really true that the staff with the drink trolleys on your service can refuse to sell you a drink if you aren’t sitting in a seat at the time you buy it? It seems disproportionate, given my seat was only a few meters behind the trolley when I asked, and I offered
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My hero is a farmer, not a duck. Which will only make sense if you read this new piece by me, the start of a new substack which I am bravely calling How To Run A Country.
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