Stuart HoddinottThink tank

Biography

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

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
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Expertise

Cited on

• Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
• Adult social care & reform

Stated areas of expertise

• NHS productivity and performance
• Adult social care policy
• Local government finance
• Public services performance tracking
• Health and care workforce
• Social care reform

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 they’ve said

• “There have been some positive steps: performance is trending slowly upwards in hospitals, there's been a genuinely large increase in GPs and the rate at which hospital staff are leaving their jobs is the lowest on record outside the pandemic. But that has been undermined by a chaotic and incoherent approach to reforming the service.”

  Associate Director, Institute for Government · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform ↗

• “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 ↗

Source references

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

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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