Principal Investigator: Professor Alistair McGuire
Deputy PI: Dr Matthew Skellern
Researchers: Alistair McGuire, Matthew Skellern, Jose-Luis Fernandez, Maria Raikou, Laia Maynou, Victoria Serra-Sastre, Irene Papanicolas, Edward Pinchbeck, Stephen Gibbons, Rocco Friebel, Georgia Troutman
Start Date: 01 April 2009
End Date: 24 June 2022
Region: Europe
Countries: United Kingdom
This wide-ranging research programme led by Professor Alistair McGuire and Dr Matthew Skellern examines the impact of NHS policy reforms over the last two decades on the economic incentives faced by health care providers, and the conseqeuent impacts of these reforms on provider productivity, efficiency, and care quality. The research programme is a collaboration between researchers from LSE Health, the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) and the LSE Research Laboratory (RLAB), which includes the LSE Centre for Economic Perofrmance (CEP).
This research programme uses patient-level NHS data securely stored on the LSE Secure Health Data Server (LSHDS) to pursue the following objectives:
- To assess the impact that various aspects of policy development in the NHS have had on patient outcomes, waiting times, and provider behaviour.
- To compare health care system performance across countries with the aim of spreading best practice, with specific focus on lessons that can be learnt for health and social care in this country.
- To develop and analyse a range of multi-dimensional indicators of health care quality and outcomes.
- To examine the link between population level exposures to environmental shocks and health outcomes.
This research programme has led to numerous publications in high-quality academic journals including the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics. Its findings have been widely cited in government reports and policy documents, as well as being cited in parliamentary debates about NHS reform.