The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to attract business. The paper …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …

half the short term general hospitals were involved in a merger, but that politics means that selection for a merger may be …

important part of the health care market using data on the choices made by 3.4 million English patients from amongst nearly 1000 …

The demand for private health insurance in the UK has risen rapidly in the last decade. The paper discusses the nature … of the demand for private health insurance in a health care market dominated by a public supplier, in which the consumer … significant determinants of the probability of purchase of health insurance cover. The results also suggest that we lack …

for private health care and the demand for private insurance in Britain. It is shown that the market is highly specialised … million people are covered by private health care insurance and in 1987 over £580 million was paid out in benefits. If private …There has been little economic analysis of the private health care industry in Britain and as a result much of the …

private health insurance in England. The survey, a nationally representative survey of the population of England aged 25 to 70 … information on both the reasons for health insurance purchase and the reasons for non-purchase by individuals and families. The … paper examines the motives for self purchase, consideration of purchase and non-purchase of health insurance. In the second …