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ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2012

Opening the oyster: the 2010-11 NHS reforms in England.

Lucy Reynolds, Martin McKee

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Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lucy ReynoldsLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H. Lucy.Reynolds@lshtm.ac.uk
Martin McKee

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This opinion paper briefly considers the credibility of the announced rationale behind the current extensive reform of the NHS in light of recent research evidence about performance of the system. The paper outlines the authors' views of the history of the reform, which originates in a set of documents, produced in the late 1980s by the Centre for Policy Studies, which aimed to introduce private sector involvement throughout the NHS, and a brief report by a consultant for a health maintenance organisation in the USA. Tracking of the pro-private sector changes in the NHS demonstrates that the bill is a major step in the implementation of NHS privatisation and also delineates a roadmap for coming developments, which have been explained to corporate providers and investors seeking new profit opportunities but have not yet been debated openly with the electorate in the UK.

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Financial ManagementForecastingHealth Care ReformHealth Services ResearchHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansPractice Management, MedicalPrivate SectorProfessional CorporationsState MedicineUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID22586786
PMCPMC4954096

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