What is it about?
Policy-makers' attempts to make NHS organisations mimic the management and behaviour of for-profit corporations in a market, whilst at the same time retaining a degree of central control. .
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Why is it important?
This is a first attempt to produce an objective, multidimensional measure of healthcare corporatisation and use it to display and analysis health system changes in the English NHS over 25 years.
Perspectives
The attempt to corporatise NHS providers has led them to become both more marketised and more bureaucratic ('responsbilised') at once. Paradoxically, the financial crisis of 2008 has proved an obstacle to faster marketisation.
Prof Rod Sheaff
University of Plymouth
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This page is a summary of: The policy and politics of healthcare corporatisation: The case of the English NHS, Social Science & Medicine, February 2024, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116505.
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