This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England.

Journal article looking at the relationship between mother's mental health and childhood behaviour using the Millennium Cohort Study

Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health service

The authors use detailed health care data for the period 2009–11 from nine countries to measure the composition and magnitude of medical spending in the three years before death.

This is the introduction to a special issue of Fiscal Studies, looking at medical spending around the developed world.

Reforms to public services have extended consumer choice by allowing for the entry of private providers. The aim is to generate competitive pressure to improve quality when consumers choose between providers. However, for many services new entrants could also affect whether a consumer demands the service at all. We explore this issue by considering how demand for elective surgery responds following the entry of private providers into the market for publicly funded health care in England.

This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to examine key features of public hospital spending in England.