There has been little economic analysis of the private health care industry in Britain and as a result much of the policy debate about its role has been ill-informed and based on rhetoric. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the market for private health care and the demand for private...

As the number of those with HIV-AIDS increases, an important concern is to understand the pattern and range of social care needs and how best these can be met. This paper relates to the report of a two-year project, funded jointly by the Department of Health (DH) and the Scottish Education...

The introduction of competition between health care providers in the NHS has been advocated as a means of promoting efficiency. In this paper we review one model of competition, internal markets, in which health authorities would be able formally to contract to buy and sell clinical services...

This Discussion Paper argues that the government has been right both in its rejection of market solutions to health insurance and in its injection of competition into provider markets. The particular advantages of the latter are that the collective expression of demand is maintained, with...