Latest Publications
Public Services
Strong public services are vital in a social market economy, but what they deliver matters much more than who delivers it. Our work is about understanding how to reform and modernise those services to deliver the greatest benefit to society.
Latest Publications:
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SMF Health Project Background Papers
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.
| Published: | 04 July 2008 |
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| Author: | SMF Health Commission |
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Choice: The evidence
This report provides an evidence-based analysis of the effects of choice systems in public services. It brings together the research findings from a range of international and domestic studies on the impact of choice on provider schemes.
| Published: | 15 December 2007 |
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| Author(s): | Ann Rossiter, Jonathan Williams |
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Finding a nicer way to value health: From hypothetical preferences to real experiences
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.
| Published: | 20 July 2007 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |
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Putting Patients In Control: The case for extending self-direction into the NHS
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.
| Published: | 25 June 2007 |
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| Author: | Vidhya Alakeson |
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Better But Cheaper? Reforming the Child Trust Fund
This paper therefore outlines a package of reforms to boost the effectiveness of the Child Trust Fund while cutting the cost of the programme by over two-thirds, or £388m per year.
| Published: | 15 June 2007 |
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| Author(s): | Ian Mulheirn, James Lloyd, Rajiv Prabhakar |
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Do hospitals need to own their buildings?
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.
| Published: | 12 June 2007 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |
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The Future of Healthcare
Demand for health services has outstripped the capacity available to meet it since the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS).
| Published: | 16 May 2007 |
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| Author: | Ann Rossiter |
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Generating Cultural Change in Public Health: Evidence and Effectiveness
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
| Published: | 20 March 2007 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |
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Road User Charging: A Road Map
This publications makes recommendations for a road pricing system that not only reduces congestion, but is also: technically and politically workable for the UK; gives appropriate priority to concerns about equity; and allows for significant contributions to reducing greenhouse emissions.
| Published: | 14 February 2007 |
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| Author(s): | Ann Rossiter, Jeegar Kakkad |