Social care

This report examines trends in the organisation of general practitioner (GP) practices in England between 2004 and 2010, and the relationship between practice size and two indicators of the quality of care: Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) scores; emergency inpatient admissions for ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) conditions. We also examine the relationship between practice size and outpatient referral behaviour.

The changing landscape of health care in the 2000s

Discussion of the funding of the National Health Service in the wake of the spending review.

We test for asymmetric information in the UK private health insurance (PHI) market.

This report forms part of research to establish a long-term expertise in the use of competition and market mechanisms in health care – both in the NHS in England and internationally.

This paper provides an overview of the growing literature that uses microlevel data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages.

This report, funded by the Nuffield Trust, examines what can be expected once the current unprecedented period of broadly flat NHS funding in real terms ends in 2014-15.

Investigations in economics of ageing.

This paper looks at the history of American diabetes.

Report commissioned as part of the Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change (CUBEC) at the University of Bristol