🚨New paper in The Lancet Healthy Longevity 🚨 ⚠️816 care homes forced to close due to severe risks to residents' health or safety. 💰Almost all of these are run by for-profit companies. 🤔The most grievous breaches of standards are in the private sector. link: thelancet.com/journals/lanhl… 🧵:

📣 ICYMI A new report from #NuffieldFunded project led by Anders Bach-Mortensen & Ben Goodair. It emphasises the need for a comprehensive assessment of the impact of for-profit provision on the quality and sustainability of adult social care in England. 📖 thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

🚨New NBER with Andrew Olenski on major hidden profits in the healthcare sector! Bear with me as I explain how nursing homes are able to hide almost 2/3 of their profits from regulators and the public! I promise it's worth it! 🧵1/17 Paper: nber.org/papers/w32258

Involuntary closures of for-profit care homes in England by the Care Quality Commission by Anders Bach-Mortensen and colleagues Ben Goodair Michelle Degli Esposti thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

📢New @openaccess paper in Social Policy & Admi nistration What was private provision of the NHS and adult/children’s social care meant to achieve? We reviewed the policy intentions justifying outsourcing for all sectors - and evaluated it against the evidence. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/spol.1…

Why did Sunak call the #generalelection yesterday... Released inflation figures? Internal pressures? A miscalculation? No... It's because we published a new paper tracking the politics of outsourcing policies, with stark conclusions... Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp… 🧵:

New paper out with Anders Bach-Mortensen and Aaron Reeves: 📊 Austerity and privatisation are geographically unrelated 🏥 Both are evidenced to negatively impact population health 🚨 Meaning their impacts are cumulatively disastrous link: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0… A 🧵of findings:

New paper w Ben Goodair Anders Bach-Mortensen on the separate impacts of privatisation and austerity on health in the UK. Labour should reverse these trends, not lean into them by accelerating privatisation and treating child poverty as a problem that can be addressed in the future.

There's been lots of debate in the last few days about how the new govt should proceed with the cap on care costs. I took a look at what happened to funding earmarked for social care reform - the next Autumn Budget is an opportunity now for govt to make vision a reality.

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 📄 "Two sides of the same coin? A longitudinal analysis evaluating whether financial austerity accelerated NHS privatisation in England (2013-2020)" bit.ly/3Yd3nIN Ben Goodair Anders Bach-Mortensen Aaron Reeves #NHS

Very excited and grateful to continue our work with the Nuffield Foundation. With an amazing team (Ben Goodair, Ole Helby Petersen, Prof Catherine Needham, Elle Carter), we will spend the next 2.5 years evaluating the impact of outsourcing care provision in England nuffieldfoundation.org/project/evalua…

New paper out today in BMJPublicHealth with Anders Bach-Mortensen and Michelle Degli Esposti: Does market competition ensure the best care homes survive? Sadly not in England's social care, the for-profit sector has taken over. Five key takeaways from our study: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/2/e0…

NEW: The results from Oxford DSPI & @nuffieldfound raise questions about the role of the private for-profit sector in exacerbating England's care sector’s ongoing crisis. More info ⬇️

🚨 Job post 🚨 We’re hiring a full-time postdoc & part-time RA on social care privatisation. On our Nuffield Foundation project at University of Oxford with me and Anders Bach-Mortensen. Please consider applying/sharing 😃 RA: bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/11000 Postdoc: bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/10999 A thread:

Great The Rest Is Money podcast on the harm of children’s home outsourcing podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… backed by our work👇 🚨For-profit children’s homes perform worse doi.org/10.1016/j.socs… ⚠️Outsourcing leads to more out-of-area placements doi.org/10.1016/j.chia… Robert Peston Steph McGovern