- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Global Health and Surgery
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Rural development and sustainability
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Health Foundation
2014-2025
Salisbury University
2022
University of Birmingham
2019-2021
Nuffield Trust
2011-2014
London School of Economics and Political Science
2011
Objectives To assess the association between market concentration of hospitals (as a proxy for competition) and patient-reported health gains after elective primary hip replacement surgery. Methods Patient Reported Outcome Measures data linked to NHS Hospital Episode Statistics in England 2011/12 were used analyse measured by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) 337 hospitals. Results The patient gain status change Oxford Hip Score (OHS) surgery was not statistically significant at 5% level both...
Changes in population structure and underlying health put a significant strain on care system resources. In this context, projecting future needs can contribute to better planning resource allocation over the long term. This paper presents model of demand costs estimate long-term funding up 2030/31.Using data from England, we first calculate utilization rates by age, gender comorbidity, where available, multiply them projected populations for wide range service areas. We then cost using...
Abstract A decade of low investment in the English National Health Service (NHS) resulted strong headline productivity growth but undermined health system's resilience and left it exposed during COVID-19 pandemic. Projected demographic pressures, driven by aging baby-boom generation rise multi-morbidity levels population, will add pressures to already stretched care resources. As NHS faces twin challenges recovering services after pandemic meeting needs from an our projections demand for...
Although taxation is arguably the most efficient funding mechanism, NHS expenditure a political choice, say Anita Charlesworth and Karen Bloor
In times of relatively low public spending in the UK since 2009-2010, health has been protected above all else. At same time budgets for education, housing and safety have fallen. This is part due to presence growing demand healthcare: while population increased by around one-third 1950, healthcare as a share on national income more than doubled. Continuing increases quantity complexity use service well unit costs indicate that these pressures will not be alleviated any soon. However, there...
Background Spending on the UK National Health Service (NHS) has risen by an average of 4% a year in real terms since its introduction 1948. This growth now halted due to reductions public spending. The English NHS is therefore targeting efficiency savings £15–20 billion 2014–15 meet rising pressures. research looks beyond estimate financial challenge facing England 2021–22, examining potential impact various policies managing these Methods To funding pressures NHS, healthcare activity was...