After taking a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University I qualified as a solicitor and practised company commercial law. I then made a career change into research by taking an MSc in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and working in an NHS district public health department. My PhD work at LSHTM was on the legal and economic aspects of the NHS internal market.
Affiliations
Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
Centre for Evaluation
Global Health Economics Centre
Teaching
I supervise a number of students looking at organisational issues in health care providers and health care systems.
Research
I am co-director (with Professor Shereen Hussein of LSHTM and Professors Kath Checkland and Matt Sutton of Manchester University) of one the national Policy Research Units, funded by NIHR from 2011 to 2023. The research unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (PRUComm) is led by Professor Stephen Peckham of LSHTM and the University of Kent. It is a joint venture with the University of Manchester and the University of Kent.
My research interests include socio-legal theory, institutional economics, organisational theory, governance and the structure of the NHS.
In addition to researching these issues in the United Kingdom, I am collaborating with colleagues in China. I am Visiting Professor of Health Services Organisation at the Medicine and Health Management School, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
In 2018 we launched the Global Health Economics Centre https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/global-health-economics-centre. Please visit our web page to find out about our work and download our most recent newsletter.
My research interests include socio-legal theory, institutional economics, organisational theory, governance and the structure of the NHS.
In addition to researching these issues in the United Kingdom, I am collaborating with colleagues in China. I am Visiting Professor of Health Services Organisation at the Medicine and Health Management School, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
In 2018 we launched the Global Health Economics Centre https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/global-health-economics-centre. Please visit our web page to find out about our work and download our most recent newsletter.
Research Area
Health care financing
Health systems
Policy analysis
Private sector
Health services
Economics (social science)
Socio-legal studies
Political science
Law (social science)
Country
United Kingdom
Canada
France
China
Region
OECD members
Selected Publications
NHS procurement and the origins of the personal protective equipment crisis
2020
British Journal of Healthcare Management
The regulation of competition and procurement in the National Health Service 2015-2018: enduring hierarchical control and the limits of juridification.
2019
Health Economics, Policy and Law
Autonomy, accountability, and ambiguity in arm’s-length meta-governance: the case of NHS England
2018
Public Management Review
The spatial politics of place and health policy: Exploring Sustainability and Transformation Plans in the English NHS.
2017
Social science & medicine (1982)
New Models of Contracting in the Public Sector: A Review of Alliance Contracting, Prime Contracting and Outcome‐based Contracting Literature
2017
Social Policy & Administration
