NHS England aims to increase transparency

NHS England launches new framework to guide staff.

Regulating the NHS market in England.

The government’s draft regulations on procurement, patient choice, and competition, published in February, have opened up old wounds in the debate about NHS reform. The regulations set out in detail how commissioners should procure NHS services under section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The stated aim of the regulations, which will be enforced byMonitor as the economic regulator, ...

Does Transparency Increase Executive Compensation ? ∗

I study the impact of changes in compensation disclosure on the level and structure of executive compensation. I exploit exogenous variation of compensation information among executives after a corporate governance reform in Germany in the late 2000s. The reform, for the first time in Germany, required firms to publicly disclose the individual compensation packages of key executives. Prior to t...

Public Decision Support - Using a Dss to Increase Democratic Transparency

We present a case study in which a decision support method (ADL) was employed by a local government in order to guide and aid decisions on three complicated and politically infected issues which had remained unresolved for many years. The research inquiry was whether a well-defined and openly accessible method would aid a common understanding of the decision problems, and whether people would b...

NHS reforms in England: the implications for chemotherapy commissioning

For oncology, one of the biggest effects of the reforms to the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been the designation of systemic anticancer treatments (other than hormonal agents) as a specialised service. This means that all decisions regarding the commissioning of chemotherapy are made at the national level via NHS England (NHSE), under expert guidance from the Chemotherapy Clinic...