Abstract Background Third sector organisations (TSOs) are a well-established component of
health care provision in the UK's NHS and other health systems, but little is known about …

Background An ageing population, the increasing specialisation of clinical services and
diverse health-care provider ownership make the co-ordination and continuity of complex …

Over the past two decades, an international trend of exposing public health services to
different forms of economic organisation has emerged. In the English National Health …

In recent years it has been noted that boundaries between public and private providers of
many types of welfare have become blurred. This paper uses three dimensions of …

Starting in 2002, the UK Labour government of 1997-2010 introduced a series of changes to
the National Health Service (NHS) in England designed to increase individual NHS patient …

Introduction The variety of organisations providing National Health Service (NHS)-funded
services in England is growing. Besides NHS hospitals and general practitioners (GPs), they …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to show how the new arrangements for
commissioning services in the English NHS can facilitate innovations in service delivery …

Background Finding ways to integrate health services to make the best use of resources,
reward the delivery of the best outcomes, address demand risk, and catalyse new …

This thesis explores the co-ordination of public services through an examination of the way
organisations in the English NHS negotiate incentives for competition and co-operation to …