To mark the anniversary of the 1977 "no" vote to the question of Welsh devolution, in 2017 the Financial Times looked at the work of the IWA as part of its "four key challenges for the Wales assembly." It particularly highlighted the development of "progressive legislation" including the IWA's concept of a distinct Welsh baccalaureate, as well as free prescription charges for medicines in 2007, legislation to tackle homelessness, and a system of presumed consent for organ donation. However it noted that hospital waiting times had deteriorated more severely in Wales since 2010 than in the rest of the UK, and that Wales from 2012 to 2016 had come last behind the rest of the UK in the OECD's education rankings.