Do Non-Monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals

Does competition between hospitals improve clinical quality? A review of evidence from two eras of competition in the English NHS.

The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has proposed changes to the English National Health Service (NHS) that will extend the hospital market introduced by “New Labour” in the 2000s. 2 This was the second era of hospital competition within the NHS; the first, the “internal market,” applied throughout the UK from 1991 to 1997. Studies of the NHS markets have generally used one of two paradigms, e...

Do Community-Based Interventions Improve Risk Sharing? Evidence from Malawi

We study whether community based interventions improve risk sharing in rural Malawi. We focus on improvements in risk sharing arising as a result of design features of these interventions. We use a 2 year panel dataset collected within a cluster randomised trial to investigate whether two community based interventions a participatory women’s group intervention and a home-based infant feeding in...

What do NHS staff think about the NHS?

Do Non-Monetary Incentive Systems Matter? - Evidence From The Restructuring Of A Non-Monetary Incentive System In An Online Community

Many operators of online communities severely struggle with overcoming the nonparticipation of users and with persuading users to contribute to their platform’s online activities. However, a critical mass of active members who are willing to contribute is necessary in order to make an online community interesting and appealing to existing and potential new users. In this research, we investigat...

Evidence - based commissioning in the English NHS

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