Services

Public Sector

NHS Governance Review 2013

This second annual review, based on desk-top research of over 100 NHS trust, FT and PCT annual reports, assesses NHS governance and how these arrangements are communicated. It also draws on comparisons from last year and survey responses from over 60 NHS leaders, to highlight areas for improvement and provide practical advice for achieving best practice.

View the report: NHS Governance Review 2013 online

Towards a tipping point?

Summary findings from our second financial health review of English local authorities, providing an up-to-date picture of how the sector is coping.

Download - Towards a tipping point?(PDF 2.3MB)

Targets in sight: approaches to delivering NHS cost targets

This review, based on a survey of NHS finance directors outlines their experience of CIPS to date and how they expect their CIPS to progress over the next three years. Download report (PDF 657KB)

Sustainable Businesses - Navigating towards a more sustainable future

This survey-based report reviews private sector businesses and the public sector organisations to assess the attitudes, progress and challenges around developing a long-term sustainable business model.

View the Sustainable Businesses report

Local Government Governance Review

Our second annual review is based on survey responses from over 60 senior council officers and members and a desk top review of over 150 UK councils' 2011/12 annual governance statements and explanatory forewords. It evaluates the soundness of existing systems for operating in the current challenging environment and also identifies trends in sector views around the effectiveness of underlying governance processes and the important factors of people, culture and behaviour.

View the report: Local Government Governance Review 2013

Migration of Public Services - For the people, by the people?

Focusing on health, education, social housing and sports, arts and leisure, this report looks at the role of civil society in devolved public services.

Download the report on the Migration of Public Services (pdf 1MB)

Facing public sector cutbacks on a scale not seen by any post-war government, there are significant shifts within the sector:

a transfer of service delivery and commissioning to independent providers and increased buying from private companies, charities, social enterprises and mutuals
a shift to localism, devolving authority to 'below' local government level
payment according to delivered results, rather than activity-based contracts, and anticipation that providers will provide capital and bear significantly greater risk
merger & consolidation programmes for NDPBs, the NHS, local authorities, educational institutions and social housing.

In this environment, we deliver effective financial advice based on our understanding of the issues our clients face, the demanding culture in which they work and the difficulties associated with implementing political and economic decisions.

This advice covers:

how to finance the future in the absence of capital to deliver adequate services and the infrastructure to support them
making mergers and collaboration work in practice, by achieving efficiency through collaboration, shared service and mergers
governance, assurance and risk best practice to ensure transparency and a sound financial under-pinning to strategy
effective engagement with local SMEs to drive the economy forward

Our clients range from government departments, local authorities, government agencies and not-for-profit organisations in the UK and overseas. Their feedback consistently commends the high quality of our work and the level of service we have provided over a number of years.

We have built our reputation on our commitment to deliver value-for-money through bespoke solutions which can only be achieved by working in partnership with our clients. We understand the importance of delivering projects in a timely and efficient manner, be it our own advice or when advising on the successful delivery of projects involving third parties. We can also see the opportunity for challenging many perceived constraints, drawing on our wider commercial experience in the private sector.