351 research outputs found
The NHS White Paper: evolution or revolution?
No full textZack Cooper assesses the coalition government's plans for healthcare reform
In brief: Competition in the public sector: good for the goose, good for the gander?
No full textZack Cooper outlines evidence on the benefits of competition in healthcare - and the implications for the coalition government's NHS reform plans.hospital competition, market structure, prospective payment, incentive structure
President Obama and Governor Romney have presented two radically different visions of healthcare reform
No full textIn our final pre-election post Zack Cooper analyses the debate surrounding health care in the United States. Health care ranks as one of the most important issues for voters in this years presidential election, and Cooper looks closely at the proposals both candidates have put forward
LSE centre for economic performance: health – higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase
No full textThe latest CEP Election Analysis, by Zack Cooper, and Alistair McGuire, and published jointly with LSE Health, gives an overview of the research evidence on UK healthcare, one of the key battlegrounds of the 2010 General Election
Hard choices: the general election and the NHS
No full textNo matter who forms the new government in May 2010, the new set of ministers will have to tackle the worst deficit in UK public finance for decades. The 2010 to 2015 period will inevitably require policy-makers and citizens to make some hard choices – either raising taxes or pruning spending on previously highly valued public services. As part of our ‘Hard Choices’ series, Zack Cooper of LSE Health looks at the NHS as an election issue
Hospital competition is good for patients, and for efficiency.
No full textThe coalition government has taken great pains to assure the public that the NHS budget will be ‘ring-fenced’, and thus not subject to the cuts of 20 to 40 per cent forecast for other Whitehall departments. At the same time, the NHS still faces (another) restructuring and the need to make significant savings. Zack Cooper considers how recent LSE Health research shows ways forward for the NHS to do more with less in the coming years.
Hospital competition is good for patients, and for efficiency
No full textThe coalition government has taken great pains to assure the public that the NHS budget will be ‘ring-fenced’, and thus not subject to the cuts of 20 to 40 per cent forecast for other Whitehall departments. At the same time, the NHS still faces (another) restructuring and the need to make significant savings. Zack Cooper considers how recent LSE Health research shows ways forward for the NHS to do more with less in the coming years
Zack Spratt\u27s Butcher\u27s Cookbook - Accession 678 - M301 (352)
No full textThe Butcher’s Cookbook consists of a leather bound notebook containing instructions on preserving and curing meat, and recipes for various meat dishes from around the 1910s. The name A.D. Payne is on the front cover and is the author of the book. Zack Spratt collected cookbooks, many of which are housed in the Winthrop Library, and speculated that “these notes were taken by someone [A. D. Payne] working in a packing plant.” Zack Spratt is most likely Zaccheus Spratt (1884-1978) and was a relative of the Fort Mill, SC Spratt Family.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1652/thumbnail.jp
Economic studies showing positive competition effects on hospital performance fully controlled for the factors cited by recent critics
No full textCriticisms have been made of recent influential studies that show improving performance in hospitals operating in more competitive environments compared with hospitals that have a local monopoly on care. Zack Cooper, Steve Gibbons, Simon Jones and Alistair McGuire set the record straight. The claims by Pollock et al are based either on distortions of the original research, or on an apparent lack of understanding of modern economic analysi
Trends in hospitalizations among medicare survivors of aortic valve replacement in the United States from 1999 to 2010
No full textAbstract not availableKarthik Murugiah, Yun Wang, John A. Dodson, Sudhakar V. Nuti, Kumar Dharmarajan, Isuru Ranasinghe, Zack Cooper, Harlan M. Krumhol
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