Private sector treatment centres are treating less complex patients than the NHS

Equity and NHS reforms. What about independent sector treatment centres?

Case-mix & patients' reports of outcome in Independent Sector Treatment Centres: Comparison with NHS providers

BACKGROUND There has been considerable concern expressed about the outcomes achieved in Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) introduced in England since 2003. Our aim was to compare the case-mix and patients' reported outcomes of surgery in ISTCs and in NHS providers. METHODS Prospective cohort study of 769 patients treated in six ISTCs and 1895 treated in 20 NHS providers (acute hosp...

Why High-level Executives Earn Less in the Government Than in the Private Sector

Though governmental officials often have far greater responsibilities and make far more consequential decisions than do CEOs of private firms, government officials often earn far less. We offer explanations for the differences, considering Nash bargaining with the head of a governmental agency or with the CEO of a private firm. In the benchmark case, with a governmental agency providing consume...

Independent sector treatment centres: evidence so far.

Older adults' affective experiences across 100 days are less variable and less complex than younger adults'.

Older adults are often described as being more emotionally competent than younger adults, and higher levels of affect complexity are seen as an indicator of this competence. We argue, however, that once age differences in affect variability are taken into account, older adults' everyday affective experiences will be characterized by lower affect complexity when compared with younger adults'. In...