Make Justice Work

Matrix Insight Ltd was commissioned by the Make Justice Work campaign to undertake an independent assessment of whether short-term prisons sentences are an effective and efficient use of public resources. Find out more in the press release.

Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Matrix was featured in the FT in a special report about doing business in emerging markets. Please click this link to read the full article.

Sniffy Customers

Dr Kevin Marsh, Head of Economic Evaluation at Matrix, was quoted in this week’s edition of The Economist in an article about drug-trafficking in Europe. Click here to read the article.

Access of BME staff to senior positions in the NHS

There has been a large amount of publicity around the report we wrote for the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvements - Access of BME staff to senior positions in the NHS.

• HSJ article by Charlotte Santr
• Guardian article by John Carvel
• Nursing Times article

You can read the full report and find out more here.

The Illicit Drug Trade in the United Kingdom Report

There has been a large amount of publicity for our report on The illicit drug trade in the United Kingdom including several newspaper articles:

• The Sunday Times magazine article by Richard Girling - The battle to break Britain’s Mr Bigs.
• The Guardian article by Alan Travis: From foreign fields to UK streets - the anatomy of an £8bn industry. You can also access the diagrams used in this article here: How drugs gangs work and Drugs prices and mark-ups.
• The Guardian ‘Comment is Free’ article by Danny Kushlick: A drug on the market.
• The Times article by Richard Ford: How drug gangs are taking a leaf out of legitimate business manual.
• Daily Mail article: ‘High salaries and little risk’ for UK’s £8billion drug barons.
• Daily Express article by Tom Whitehead: Evil drug barons net billions with 16,000% mark-up.
• The Telegraph article by John Steele: Police chiefs u-turn on cannabis classification.

You can read the full report and find out more here.