<p>This review examines the performance of the UK healthcare system. After presenting data on the level and distribution of resources, three topics are examined. The first is the lessons from international comparisons of evidence on expenditure, equity and healthcare outcomes. The second is the lessons from the recent internal market reforms. The third is the lessons from an analysis of the role for private finance in UK healthcare. The review concludes that economists and policymakers need to focus more attention on the relationship between healthcare inputs - expenditure - and health outcomes, and, within this, on the incentives facing suppliers and demanders of healthcare. </p>
Authors
Carol Propper
Research Fellow Imperial College London
Carol is a Research Fellow at the IFS and a Professor of Economics in the Department of Management and Imperial College Business School, London.
Journal article details
- ISSN
- Print: 0143-5671 Online: 1475-5890
- JEL
- I1, H4.
- Issue
- June 2001
Suggested citation
Propper, C. (2001). 'Expenditure on healthcare in the UK: a review of the issues ' (2001)
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