Overview
Carol's research has spanned a large range of healthcare related issues including:
COmpetition and healthcare
Carol's research has shown that competition has a positive impact on quality in both the hospital sector and the primary care sector in England. She has also shown that competition improves managerial quality in the NHS. Her current research examines the impact of CEOS in the NHS on hospital performance.
Targets and Terror
Waiting times are a perennial issue in the English NHS. Carol studied early use by the English government of an aggressive policy of targets coupled with publication of waiting times data at hospital level and strong sanctions for poor performing hospital managers. This regime has been dubbed ‘targets and terror’. Carol Propper discusses this research
View paper or listen to podcast here
Centralised Pay Setting
Carol has examined the impact of centralised pay setting in public services inthe UK. Her work showed that hospitals in high cost areas like London and the South East struggle to recruit and retain staff because wages do not adequately reflect the local cost of living. As a consequence, these hospitals have had higher fatality rates among patients admitted with emergency heart attacks. View paper or listen to podcast here She has also shown that regulated wages for teachers harm learning in schools.
COVID-19
Carol made a number of contributions to our understanding of the impact of COVID. Her COVID related research findings and commentary includes:
- Capitalism after Covid: Conversations with 21 Economists, that offers the thoughts of 21 top economists representing most of the different fields of economics on the key challenges the world faces after the Covid pandemic.
- Work by Carol Propper showed that a 5 per cent fall in employment leads to a 7 per cent to 10 per cent increase in chronic illness among the working-age population
- Can the NHS recover from coronavirus?
- Coronavirus and the economy
- The longer run health and healthcare implications of COVID-19
- COVID-19: The Policy Response
- The wider impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the NHS
- Recessions and health: the long-term health consequences of responses to the coronavirus
Guest Lectures
Lessons from experiments in competition and choice in healthcare supply in England and Europe, Opening Plenary International Health Economics Association Boston 2017 Congress, Boston, USA, 2017
Management of Acute Provider Performance, Seminar for Imperial Business in the City series, London, 2017
Research on Competition in the NHS, Keynote speech at South Danish Universities, COHERE Annual Conference, Denmark, 2017
Research on Competition in the NHS, Talk at Associated Medical Services (AMS) Healthcare Symposium – Canadian Medicare 2017: Historical Reflections, Future Directions, Toronto, Canada, 2017
Management of Acute Provider Performance, Seminar at Melbourne Institute, Australia, 2017
Management of Acute Provider Performance, Seminar at Monash University Centre for Health Economics, Australia, 2017
Research on Competition in the NHS, Talk given to International Consulting Economists' Association (ICEA) members, London, 2017
Management of Acute Provider Performance, Seminar at ISER, University of Essex, UK, 2017
Management of Acute Provider Performance, Seminar at Paris School of Economics, Paris, France, 2017
Management of Acute Provider Performance, Seminar at Department of Health, London, 2017
Does Competition in Healthcare Work?, University of Sheffield, UK, 2016
Lessons from the UK in use of choice and competition in the NHS, Annual seminar at Valtion Taloudellinen Tutkimuskeskus (VATT) Institute for Economic Research to Finnish Policy Makers, Helsinki, Finland, 2016
Competition in Healthcare, Keynote at Competent in Competition + Health (CINCH) – Essen Health Symposium, Germany, 2016
Productivity in Healthcare: Lessons from the UK, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 2016
Research on Equity in Health Care, Presentation at Institute for Fiscal Studies Conference 2016, London, 2016
Using Choice and Competition in Healthcare, University of Lancaster Annual Esmee Fairburn Lecture, Lancaster, UK, 2015
Management in Healthcare, Competition and Markets Authority, London, 2015
Management in Healthcare, Monitor, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), London, 2015
Management and Competition in Health Care, Invited expert presentation at Parliamentary Group on Healthcare, London, 2015
Management and Competition in Health Care, Keynote address at Finnish Health Economics Society, Finland, 2014
Management and Competition in Health Care, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2014
Management and Competition in Health Care, Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
Free to choose? Reform and demand response in the English National Health Service, Odense, Denmark, 2014
Free to choose? Reform and demand response in the English National Health Service, Institute For Fiscal Studies, London, 2014
Free to choose? Reform and demand response in the English National Health Service, Invited talk at University of Toulouse, France, 2014
Free to choose? Reform and demand response in the English National Health Service, American Health Economics Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 2013