[1] Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in england, 2013–20: An observational study of nhs privatisation.
Published in The Lancet Public Health, with Aaron Reeves, 2022
Interpretation: The privatisation of the NHS in England, through the outsourcing of services to for-profit companies, consistently increased in 2013–20. Private sector outsourcing corresponded with significantly increased rates of treatable mortality, potentially as a result of a decline in the quality of health-care services.
Media coverage: Guardian, FT, NewStatesman, Bloomberg, OpenDemocracy and others
Data and coding library: here’
Recommended citation: Goodair, B., & Reeves, A. (2022). Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in england, 2013–20: An observational study of nhs privatisation. The Lancet Public Health, 7(7), e638–e646.