'Two sides of the same coin'? A longitudinal analysis evaluating whether financial austerity accelerated NHS privatisation in England 2013-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand the relationship between increasing privatisation of the NHS and austerity cuts to public funding.

Design

Longitudinal analysis.

Setting

170 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England between 2013 and 2020.

Intervention

The UK austerity programme, spearheaded by the conservative-led governments of the 2010s, leveraged the 2008 financial crisis to roll-back spending to local government and social security spending. They also restricted the rate of growth in NHS spending-but cuts varied for different areas, often impacting deprived areas hardest.

Main outcome

For-profit outsourcing by NHS commissioners. After the implementation of the 2012 Health and Social Care act commissioners were encouraged and obliged to open contracts t

SUBMITTER: Goodair B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812912 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature