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    The NHS White Paper: evolution or revolution?

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    Zack 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?

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    Zack 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

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    In 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

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    The 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

    Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /

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    Title from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia

    Hard choices: the general election and the NHS

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    No 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.

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    The 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

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    The 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

    Author David Foster with academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /

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    Title from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia

    Author David Foster and academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /

    No full text
    Title from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
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