‘Pay regulation kills and other cautionary tales: What we learn from economics about running a health service.’
By Professor Carol Propper
Thursday 11 November 2010
17.30 - 18.30
Lower Ground Square Lecture Theatre, Imperial College Business School
(Followed by a reception from 18.30 – 19.30)
Abstract
This talk will focus on a series of measures widely adopted by policy makers and politicians interested in improving outcomes in health care. These include pay regulation, competition, and performance targets. Carol will critically assess the use and usefulness of these as a means of achieving increases in productivity and better outcomes in health care systems.
Biography
Carol Propper is Professor of Economics at Imperial College and Professor of the Economics of Public Policy at the University of Bristol. She is also a founding member of CMPO, Bristol University and Research Associate at the CEPR. She was a Council Member and Chair of the Research Grant Board of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) between 2005 and 2009.
She is a leading researcher of the UK health care market. Her research interests include the use of market and financial incentives to enhance quality, productivity and innovation in health care and the long term impact of children's health on later life outcomes. Recent research projects include examination of the effect of competition on quality in the NHS post ‘Choose and Book' and ‘PbR', the use of performance measures to improve outcomes in health care, the impact of the public-private pay gap on productivity of the NHS and the effect of competition on management quality in the NHS. In 1993-4 she was Senior Economic Advisor to the Chief Executive of the NHS on the regulation of the internal market. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, and the Journal of Economic Policy and Analysis.
She publishes regularly in international economics journals. Her research has appeared in the Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Population Economics the Journal of Public Economics and Labour Economics.
In 2010 she was awarded a CBE for her services to social science.
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