Our study showing widening inequalities in admissions for hip and knee elective surgery: a consequence of increased outsourcing of NHS elective surgery to private sector. So much for the duty on NHSE and ICS to reduce health inequalities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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 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…

📣Just out in BMJPublicHealth: Have outsourcing enabled the survival of good care homes in England? 📈For-profit provision has increased despite performing worse than non-profit homes 🚨Third and public sector homes have closed irrespective of quality doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-…