Most of the population thinks that NHS treatment should be available without any limitation imposed by shortage of money. But in the cold hard world all healthcare everywhere is rationed.
- Command and Control Management: 9 October 2020
- Letter to Matt Hancock on profound concern over £5m cut to PrEP in England 8 July 2020
- Potential treatments for COVID-19 could be manufactured for $1 a day or less 15 April 2020
- SHA COVID-19 Blog 2 23 March 2020
- New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 16 October 2019
- US-style healthcare is already with us 8 June 2019
- Phone app that could destroy our GP system 13 December 2018
- Under-pressure GPs are delivering ‘remarkable outcomes’ on cancer 30 October 2018
- Government funding cuts leave sexual health and HIV care at ‘breaking point’ 2 October 2018
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- appeal against NHS England’s new Integrated Care Provider contract: by Jenny 19 August 2018
- A new framework for best HIV care: BHIVA Standards of Care revised and updated (2018) 26 April 2018
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- Cut the horse manure! Where’s the evidence? 8 May 2016
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- The north loses out yet again under NHS funding proposals 22 October 2013
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- Basic Health Economics
- Centre for Market and Public Organisation Bristol
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- Competition markets and quality in health care: complete garbage by Carol Propper and Jennifer Dixon
- Cost of the Internal Market
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- Monitor has much work to do to produce a cogent analysis of pricing in healthcare
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Morality and markets in the NHS 2014
- More on competition in healthcare
- OFT calls for greater patient choice and competition in dentistry market
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Adam Roberts: Future funding scenarios for the NHS and social care in England
“Market mechanisms yield distributional advantages for particular influential groups.
(1) A more costly health care system yields higher prices and incomes for suppliers—physicians, drug companies, and private insurers.
(2) Private payment distributes overall system costs according to use (or expected use) of services, costing wealthier and healthier people less than finance from (income-related) taxation.
(3) Wealthy and unhealthy people can purchase (real or perceived) better access or quality for themselves, without having to support a similar standard for others.
Thus there is, and always has been, a natural alliance of economic interest between service providers and upper-income citizens to support shifting health financing from public to private sources. Analytic arguments for the potential superiority of hypothetical competitive markets are simply one of the rhetorical forms through which this permanent conflict of economic interest is expressed in political debate.