Reports
Topics
- Accountability 4
- Availability 1
- Care home 2
- Competition 1
- Conflicts of Interest 1
- Conflicts of interest in Healthcare 3
- Contracting 5
- Covid-19 4
- DHSC 1
- Governance 1
- Government’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic 3
- Healthcare Fraud 2
- Inflation 1
- Joint venture 1
- Marketisation 5
- NHS & Social Care Funding 4
- NHS Trusts 1
- OHID 1
- PFI 3
- PHE 1
- Pandemic 1
- Patient Safety 1
- Patient Safety in Private Hospitals 4
- Patient involvement 2
- Preparing for a pandemic 2
- Private Finance Initaitive 5
- Professionalism in Healthcare 1
- Public Health 2
- STPs 5
- Service reconfiguration 3
- Social Care 1
- The finances of the care home sector 4
- The funding gap 3
- The outsourcing of NHS eye care to the private sector 2
- UKHSA 1
The contracting NHS – can the NHS handle the outsourcing of clinical services?
This report raises questions about the capacity of the NHS to handle the increasing outsourcing of its services to the private sector and its ability to ensure that services provided by the private sector under contract with the NHS are safe, effective and value for money.
What market-based patient choice can’t do for the NHS: The theory and evidence of how choice works in health care
This analysis looks at how the concept of patient choice has worked in the NHS in recent years. It finds that the type of patient choice that contemporary health policy draws on almost exclusively is based on a flawed account of what choices actually mean for patients.
At what cost? Paying the price for the market in the English NHS
This analysis looks at the evidence showing that creating and maintaining markets in the NHS has incurred huge financial costs and significant ‘opportunity costs’ – money which could have spent upon patient care and clinical redesign.
Competition and collaboration in ‘the new NHS’
This analysis explores how the Health and Social Care Act 2012 has placed requirements on NHS commissioners to engage in both collaboration and competition.
Healthcare fraud in the new NHS market: a threat to patient care
This report warns that the introduction of greater use of for profit providers of healthcare services as a result of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act is likely to substantially increase the amount of healthcare fraud in the NHS. This will result in less money for patient care when funds are already scarce.