TY - JOUR
T1 - The changing national health service
T2 - Market-based reform and morality: Comment on “morality and markets in the NHS”
AU - Frith, Lucy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by Kerman University of Medical Sciences.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This commentary explores some of the issues raised by Gilbert et al. short communication, Morality and Markets in the NHS. The increasing role of market mechanisms and the changing types of healthcare providers together with the use of choice and competition to drive improvements in quality in the National Health Service (NHS), all have important ethical implications. In order for the NHS to continue providing the level of service quality that out performs many high-income countries, despite spending much less on healthcare, we need a re-think of creeping marketization and privatisation and a consolidation of the NHS as a publically owned resource run for the benefit of patients and the public, not commercial interests.
AB - This commentary explores some of the issues raised by Gilbert et al. short communication, Morality and Markets in the NHS. The increasing role of market mechanisms and the changing types of healthcare providers together with the use of choice and competition to drive improvements in quality in the National Health Service (NHS), all have important ethical implications. In order for the NHS to continue providing the level of service quality that out performs many high-income countries, despite spending much less on healthcare, we need a re-think of creeping marketization and privatisation and a consolidation of the NHS as a publically owned resource run for the benefit of patients and the public, not commercial interests.
KW - Health policy
KW - Markets in healthcare
KW - Morality and ethics
KW - National health service (NHS) england
KW - Privatisation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85002169330&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.39
DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.39
M3 - Commentary/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85002169330
SN - 2322-5939
VL - 4
SP - 253
EP - 255
JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management
JF - International Journal of Health Policy and Management
IS - 4
ER -