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A diverse community of leading experts, policymakers and practitioners

The Institute’s key research themes are led by ten academic partners spread across the UK.

Working closely with policymakers

We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business

Businesses are crucial to solving the UK’s productivity problems.

Research

Productivity in the health service: COVID-19

This short project sets out the methodology used to calculate health productivity in the UK, and trace why the measured productivity has declined so substantially during the pandemic. It supplements this with case studies of Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Manchester Foundation Trust and will set out a future research agenda for health productivity.

Project lead Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge)

Collaborators Kaya Dreesbeimdieck, Annabel Manley (University of Cambridge)

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