Latest Publications

At the 60th anniversary of the NHS, the SMF has brought together a range of stakeholders in the health service.

These background papers provide an extensive review of the literature on different aspects of health policy - from the implications of ageing to the reformed provider market in the NHS.

Following recent controversies over the availability of expensive drugs on the NHS, NICE’s work in allocating the NHS’s spending on medical treatments is coming under increasing scrutiny. In this essay, Professor Paul Dolan challenges the methodology used by NICE to determine the cost-effectiveness of different treatments.

Putting patients In Control argues that it is time to end the institutional divide between health and social care that currently preventss self-direction being introduced into the NHS.

General Health Co-operative (GHC) in Seattle has sold its last hospital. In future GHC will provide healthcare to over 600,000 people by using hospitals belonging to other organisations.

Demand for health services has outstripped the capacity available to meet it since the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS).

This publications, the result of a conference convened by the Social Market Foundation in June 2006, brings together some of the most expert and considered voices in the field to explore the contentious issues around the major themes dominating the health

In this paper Professor Corrigan explains why patient demand must be organised more effectively to trigger new and different forms of primary care.

In this essay, published in January 2005, Secretary of State for Health Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP sets out the case for extending patient choice within the NHS.