The think tank found business services were now growing strongly.
The independent civil service think tank The Institute of Government will today publish a paper warning that divisions between ministers and officials have now become "serious" and are effecting the good running of the government.
What we do have is an argument: that if you want to understand public services properly then it helps to have direct experience of them, hence the big idea behind our new think tank – invite frontline practitioners and service users to lead research and policywork in order to improve social policy.
Last September, a report by think tank Data Driven Detroit found 115 full-service grocery stores in the city, not including the large and busy Eastern Market.
In the meantime, however, as a public service consistent with our think tank's tax-exempt status, here you go.
Health think tank the King's Fund agreed that GP services were under increasing pressure, but said talk of "extinction" was "a huge exaggeration".
The think tank will look at the organisation of the civil service in a number of countries including Australia, Singapore and Sweden.
For the Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy group and think tank, Saturday night was like any other for one of its integral services: the food van.
Here, for example, is a group of indicators of demand for NHS services in England, collated by Prof John Appleby, of independent health think tank the King's Fund.
According to the left leaning think tank, the root cause of the problem is an unaccountable and unreformed civil service.
Alex Thomson, chief executive of the local government think tank Localis, said: "Asking local authorities to use capital reserves and assets to continue providing services is short-sighted.
