New paper out today in @TheLancetPH with co-author @aaronsreeves: 📈 NHS outsourcing on the rise 🏥 For-profit expenditure associated with higher mortality rates 🚩 Declining population health outcomes may be worsened by privatisation #OpenAccess here:

Now freely open access in @bmj_latest: How outsourcing has contributed to England’s social care crisis. We make the case that to "control, restrict, or remove the profit motive in social care, would improve quality and reduce inequalities". Read more:

RT @AMBachMortensen: How has outsourcing contributed to the care crisis? Less than 3% of care homes are publicly run. In @bmj_latest, we a…

RT @bmj_latest: Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be…

You can read a nice press release by @BlavatnikSchool below:

RT @Anna_Marriott: .@wesstreeting - beyond perversely announcing even greater use of the private sector, very little government policy has…

Full report:

RT @SusannaRustin:

RT @_tomwall: Care homes run to make a profit are more likely to be shut down for putting vulnerable adults & children at risk. My write up…

RT @GrandCamouflage: The #NHS75 special issue of @spaajournal - including my history of the intermediate tier in the NHS - is now available…

We conclude: "not only is lower-quality private provision crowding out higher-rated public and third sector alternatives, but the entire system is being moulded in ways that may undermine that of sufficient, equitable, and quality care delivery."