Involuntary closures of for-profit care homes in England by the Care Quality Commission by Anders Bach-Mortensen and colleagues Ben Goodair Michelle Degli Esposti thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

🚨New NBER with Andrew Olenski on major hidden profits in the healthcare sector! Bear with me as I explain how nursing homes are able to hide almost 2/3 of their profits from regulators and the public! I promise it's worth it!

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Paper: nber.org/papers/w32258

📣 ICYMI

A new report from #NuffieldFunded project led by Anders Bach-Mortensen & Ben Goodair.

It emphasises the need for a comprehensive assessment of the impact of for-profit provision on the quality and sustainability of adult social care in England.

📖 thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

🚨New paper in The Lancet Healthy Longevity 🚨

⚠️816 care homes forced to close due to severe risks to residents' health or safety.
💰Almost all of these are run by for-profit companies.
🤔The most grievous breaches of standards are in the private sector.

link: thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

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Private care home closures in England raise concern over quality of provision on.ft.com/4986weR

NEW: A study has found that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership.

Researchers analysed 13 long-term studies from different high-income countries such as England, Germany, South Korea and the USA.

More info⬇️

New review out in The Lancet Public Health today with Aaron Reeves:

What is the impact of healthcare privatisation on quality of care?

'We find a fairly consistent picture... privatisation comes at the expense of quality of care'

Link: thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

'There is strong evidence which demonstrates for-profit providers are more likely to place children outside of their local area... and pose a greater risk to the stability and continuity of care they provide'

Nice quote today from Julie Morgan MS

politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

📣New paper in ESR with Nhat An Trinh & A. Fasang

👉Key findings: About half of all children in Germany have a parent with a non-standard work contract or schedule. But only mothers' non-standard schedules are associated with children’s education.

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…

What do we know about health and social care outsourcing?

'The evidence very rarely suggests that further outsourcing is a good idea. Despite this, more and more services are outsourced to the private sector.'

I wrote for Economics Observatory today:

New paper out today:

England's NHS uses private providers to deliver healthcare. But why?

I asked commissioners why they think the NHS outsources services.

Privatisation is often not purposeful, and sometimes concerning...

A thread of findings:

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

'Heat is associated with short-term increases in household food insecurity in 150 countries and this is mediated by income.'

My first single author paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Here's a thread to summarise the work 🧵

New piece by Anders Bach-Mortensen, Jane Barlow and myself out this week:

'Because for-profit provision has increasingly become synonymous with out-of-area placements, the care these children receive is compromised.'

theconversation.com/two-in-five-ch…