Stuart Hoddinott

Who Stuart Hoddinott is

Stuart Hoddinott is an Associate Director in the public services team at the Institute for Government (IfG), a non-partisan think tank based in London. His work at the Institute has focused on health and adult social care policy as well as local government services and finance. Before joining the IfG, he was a management accountant; he holds an undergraduate degree in politics and economics and a master's in public policy. He is the lead author of the IfG's annual Public Services Performance Tracker, covering the NHS, adult social care, and local government. He has argued that successive governments have neglected adult social care and that the abolition of NHS England was ill-judged, and his research documented a geographical 'care gap' in access to publicly funded care for older adults across England.

References for this biography

1. 1.Stuart Hoddinott | Institute for Government — Confirms role as Associate Director in the public services team, academic background, and research focus on health, adult social care and local government
2. 2.Stuart Hoddinott | Nuffield Trust — Independently corroborates role, team, prior career as management accountant, and educational background
3. 3.Adult social care across England: Performance Tracker Local | Institute for Government — Establishes Hoddinott as author of June 2025 report on the adult social care 'care gap' in England
4. 4.Nearly 100,000 adults in England denied state-funded social care due to cuts | Institute for Government — Attributes to Hoddinott's Performance Tracker the finding that tens of thousands of people in England lack access to long-term care
5. 5.One year on: Where has the government's decision to abolish NHS England left the NHS? | Institute for Government — Establishes Hoddinott as author of IfG commentary critiquing the abolition of NHS England
6. 6.Performance Tracker | Nuffield Foundation — Lists Hoddinott as lead researcher on the IfG's Nuffield Foundation-funded Performance Tracker project covering NHS, adult social care and local government
7. 7.INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT – Companies House — Confirms registered head office address: 2 Carlton Gardens, London, SW1Y 5AA

Notable achievements

• Lead author of the IfG's Performance Tracker Local report (June 2025) identifying a damaging geographical and demographic 'care gap' in access to publicly funded adult social care across England. Source ↗
• Author of the IfG's Public Services Performance Tracker 2025: The NHS, a major annual assessment of NHS hospital and GP performance funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Source ↗
• His Performance Tracker research revealed that nearly 100,000 adults in England were denied state-funded social care due to cuts. Source ↗
• Published commentary arguing the government's decision to abolish NHS England was 'more ill-judged than ever', one year after the announcement. Source ↗

What Stuart Hoddinott has said

• “Our assessment is that by the end of this parliament, on the government's current trajectory, public services will be more centralised, integration will have slowed or even reversed, and a measurable shift towards prevention will not have occurred.”

  public services expert at the Institute for Government · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Labour failing to shift power from Whitehall to local areas, analysis finds ↗

• “Overall there has been some progress [on waiting times since Labour took office in July 2024]. But it was from an incredibly low base and was already trending upwards. Crucially, additional funding and staffing are not translating into rapid improvements in performance.”

  associate director of the Institute for Government thinktank · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · NHS to miss targets for cutting A&E wait times and performance in England ↗

• “the abolition of NHS England was an incredibly hasty decision that seems to have been made with little consideration of the wide-ranging impacts. It is creating a lot of turmoil”

  NHS expert at the Institute for Government thinktank · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · NHS restructure is greatest danger to Streeting’s effort to revive service ↗

• “Most public services struggled when spending was cut during the early 2010s, but few as much as local government. Cuts were so deep that, even with sustained increases throughout the 2020s, funding is still due to be lower in real terms in 2028-29 than it was almost two decades earlier.”

  author of the report by the Institute for Government · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · English councils to remain poorer than in 2010 despite funding rise, says report ↗

Where Stuart Hoddinott has been quoted

1. Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reformtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
2. Labour failing to shift power from Whitehall to local areas, analysis findstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
3. NHS to miss targets for cutting A&E wait times and performance in Englandtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
4. NHS restructure is greatest danger to Streeting’s effort to revive servicetheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
5. English councils to remain poorer than in 2010 despite funding rise, says reporttheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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• An important step forward in ending corridor care - Colin Poolman | Blog | RCN ScotlandRoyal College of Nursing

Contact & links

• Staff pagehttps://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/person/stuart-hoddinott
• Xhttps://x.com/StuartHoddinott
• LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hoddinott-24292212/

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