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Publication types
Health and healthcare

Healthcare

Work on healthcare systems focuses on the increased use of market mechanisms within the NHS. We examine the responses of patients, GPs, and other healthcare workers to market incentives, and the impacts upon recorded NHS activity and hospital outcomes.
Research projects
This work looks at the use of competition and market mechanisms in health care in England and internationally.
The research maps the longer term financial challenge facing the health service.
Work in this area looks at trends in, and forecasts for, public spending on health.