Sector: Healthcare

1st October 2025

Knowledge Type

Report

Organisation

McKinsey and Co Lean In
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Women in the Workplace 2025

Women in the Workplace 2025 reveals declining corporate commitment to gender equity, with fewer companies prioritising women’s advancement. Women face persistent barriers at all levels, from lack of sponsorship to flexibility stigma and burnout, especially at the entry and senior stages. The report outlines proven strategies: fair promotion practices, stronger manager support, inclusive cultures, and targeted investment. Companies that apply these consistently see better representation and outcomes.

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Women in the Workplace 2025
23rd June 2025

Knowledge Type

Report

Organisation

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
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Fostering Wellbeing At Work In The UK

This five-year review of UK workplace data from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School reveals a post-pandemic decline in employee wellbeing, with notable disparities by age, gender, and managerial level. Using survey data from over 900 organisations, the study highlights the importance of leadership, job design, and inclusive practices in supporting wellbeing. It concludes with five recommendations for embedding wellbeing into organisational strategy.

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Fostering Wellbeing At Work In The UK
16th July 2025

Organisation

National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority
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The Infrastructure Pipeline

The Infrastructure Pipeline is the ten year forward look of investment into major UK capital infrastructure. Launched in July 2025, it supports the strategic framework of the government’s ‘UK Infrastructure: a 10 Year Strategy and is part of the government’s growth mission and the ‘Plan for Change’. The Infrastructure Strategy set out at least £725 billion of public funding for infrastructure over ten years and highlighted the critical role played by private investment alongside this. The Infrastructure Pipeline captures the projects and programmes from public and private sectors that will deliver the 10 Year Strategy.

Through a series of regular updates, the Pipeline will become a comprehensive database of information for construction firms and investors looking to understand future demand.

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11th May 2025

Knowledge Type

Report

Organisation

Chartered Institute of Building
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Understanding Mental Health In The Built Environment

The CIOB’s 2025 report presents updated survey findings on mental health in the UK construction industry. While support initiatives like Mental Health First Aiders and awareness campaigns have increased, access remains limited for smaller firms. The report includes industry and government-level recommendations, alongside case studies, to support improved mental health practices.

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Understanding Mental Health in the Built Environment
31st March 2025

Knowledge Type

Video

Organisation

Major Projects Association Moorhouse Consulting The Advance Consultancy Oakland
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Projects with Purpose: Exploring B Corp Certification For Association Members

Discover how members of the Major Projects Association can align their mission-driven values with the globally recognized B Corp Certification in this informative roundtable session, hosted by the Major Projects Association. This webinar “Projects with Purpose: Exploring B Corp Certification for MPA Members” brought together experts and members who have embarked on the B Corp journey. Leaders from three member organisations – Moorhouse Consulting, Oakland and The Advance Consultancy – share their B Corp journeys and discuss what certification means to them, sharing how they tackled the process and now, as certified companies, how they are hoping to develop the idea of “Projects with Purpose”.

 

2nd April 2025

Knowledge Type

Report

Organisation

Evaluation Task Force
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Government Major Projects Evaluation Review

The Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) is a collection of the government’s most complex and strategically significant projects. Major projects range from railways, roads, schools, hospitals and housing, to energy, telecommunications, defence, IT and transformation programmes. The ETF has conducted this review to see how well current GMPP projects are being evaluated and what needs to be done to keep improving.

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Government Major Projects Evaluation Review
2nd February 2025

Knowledge Type

Guidance/Good practice

Organisation

Cabinet Office
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Procurement Policy Note: Taking Account Of Social Value In The Award Of Central Government Contracts

Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 002, issued in February 2025, updates the UK government’s Social Value Model to align with the National Procurement Policy Statement and the Procurement Act 2023. Effective from 1 October 2025, this guidance mandates that all central government departments, executive agencies, and non-departmental public bodies incorporate a minimum 10% weighting for social value in above-threshold procurements. The policy emphasizes relevance and proportionality to the contract’s subject matter and aims to avoid unnecessary burdens on suppliers, particularly SMEs and VCSEs.

Key requirements include:

  • Application of the Social Value Model throughout the procurement lifecycle, especially during planning and preparation stages.

  • Inclusion of social value commitments in contracts as terms, key performance indicators, or performance indicators.

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Procurement Policy Note: Taking account of social value in the award of central government contracts
22nd June 2025

Organisation

UK Government
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The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025

This policy paper published by the UK Government outlines a modern Industrial Strategy aimed at supporting long-term economic growth across a range of sectors, including clean energy, life sciences, construction, and artificial intelligence. The strategy sets out a framework for addressing structural challenges such as skills development, infrastructure investment, and research and innovation. It also introduces sector-specific partnerships and policies designed to encourage productivity and competitiveness.

For insights on what this strategy means for major project delivery, see our blog post: From strategy to systems: What the UK’s Industrial Strategy 2025 means for major projects.

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The UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 2025
23rd June 2021

Knowledge Type

Guidance/Good practice

Organisation

National Audit Office

Major Project

Test and Trace
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Test and Trace in England – progress update

Summary

This is the second of the NAO reports on government’s approach to test and trace services in England and it focuses on the period from the beginning of November 2020. It follows their interim report in December 2020, which covered the period from the creation of the NHS Test and Trace Service (NHST&T) in May 2020 up to October 2020.

Test and trace services are designed to play a core role in government’s response to the pandemic, which has also included restrictions on social contact, travel, retail, workplaces and educational establishments, and from December 2020 the roll-out of the vaccination programme. Test and trace programmes for COVID-19 aim to reduce infections by identifying individuals with the virus, tracing their contacts and isolating them to limit further transmission.

This second report provides an update, focusing on the period from November 2020 to April 2021. It is factual and does not present a full value‑for‑money assessment. This reflects the time period covered and the changing and ongoing response to the pandemic. The report covers:

  • major developments in the test, trace and isolate programme from November 2020 (Part One);
  • funding and spending for the programme in 2020-21, including its use of contracts, consultants and its utilisation rates (Part Two);
  • the performance and effectiveness of test and trace services up to the end of April 2021 (Part Three); and
  • current plans for the future delivery of test and trace services, including transition arrangements to the new UKHSA, and securing a longer-term benefit from the investment into test and trace services (Part Four).

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15th July 2021

Knowledge Type

Case Study Major Projects Association Report

Organisation

Vaccines Task Force

Major Project

Covid 19 Vaccination Programme
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Prestige Event 2021: The Successful Vaccination Programme – Lessons Learned for Major Projects

Summary

Recording of the 2021 Prestige Lecture: The Successful Vaccination Programme – Lessons for Major Projects, featuring Dame Kate Bingham, Managing Partner, SV Health Investors and Nick Elliot CB MBE, Director, Turner & Townsend as keynote speakers. Kate chaired the Vaccine Taskforce whilst Nick was the Programme Director responsible for delivery. Together they will explain the objectives and challenges of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, how it was set up and what contributed to its success before considering the lessons from the programme that should be applied to other Major Projects.

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