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Dr Dorota Osipovic

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

I am a sociologist specialising in the sociology of organisations and economic sociology. I am interested in the political economy of health and care services provision. I am a member of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Systems and Commissioning. I research the allocation of resources, including funding, purchasing, procuring and provider payment mechanisms, and sociolegal aspects of health systems such as governance, regulation, and accountability in the context of the English NHS.

 
As part of NIHR PRU in HSSC, I have been involved in several research projects exploring various organisational aspects of the English NHS, such as an interplay between provider competition and cooperation in planning local health services and implementation of the new architecture of system management established by the Health and Care Act 2022. Currently, I am involved in two projects - on the development of provider collaboratives and on the application of the Provider Selection Regime regulations by the Integrated Care Boards.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I am a co-Module Organiser for the Health Services (1107) module (together with Mirza Lalani). I am also a seminar leader, marker, and I co-lead some lecture Q&As. 

 

Previously, I've taught on the Health Policy, Process and Power and Health Systems modules. I also contributed as a tutor, supervisor and project marker on the MSc in Public Health.

Research

I am interested in the organisation of health care services, interorganisational relations, the interface between health care services and longterm/social care services as well as between informal and formal care. I am also interested in the issues of social legitimacy of public services, including the conceptualisations of welfare deservingness and the normative underpinnings of public services as reflected in the public attitudes. 

Research Area
Health care policy
Policy analysis
Political science
Sociology
Economics (social science)
Health systems
Health service management
Organisational research
Country
United Kingdom
Region
European Union
OECD members

Selected Publications

The Architecture of System Management (2022-2023)
SANDERSON, M; OSIPOVIC, D; Petsoulas, C; Allen, P; Lau, Y-S; Sutton, M;
2024
The Architecture of System Management (2022-2023)
The Developing Architecture of System Management: Integrated Care Systems and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships - Final Report
SANDERSON, M; ALLEN, P; OSIPOVIC, D; PETSOULAS, C; Lau, Y-S; Boiko, O; Lorne, C; Sutton, M;
2022
Analysis of the Health and Care Bill 2021. Procurement, Payment, Competition and Patient Choice Provisions
OSIPOVIC, D; Allen, P;
2021
NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Systems and Commissioning (HSSC)
NHS procurement and the origins of the personal protective equipment crisis
BOIKO, O; ALLEN, P; OSIPOVIC, D; SANDERSON, M; Checkland, K;
2020
British Journal of Healthcare Management
Commissioning of healthcare through competitive and cooperative mechanisms under the HSCA 2012
OSIPOVIC, D; ALLEN, P; Shepherd, E; PETSOULAS, C; Coleman, A; Perkins, N; WILLIAMS, L; SANDERSON, M;
2020
Commissioning Healthcare in England
Agreeing the allocation of scarce resources in the English NHS: Ostrom, common pool resources and the role of the state.
SANDERSON, M; ALLEN, P; Moran, V; McDermott, I; OSIPOVIC, D;
2020
Social Science and Medicine
Integrated Care Systems: What can current reforms learn from past research on regional co-ordination of health and care in England? A literature review
LORNE, C; ALLEN, P; Checkland, K; OSIPOVIC, D; SANDERSON, M; Hammond, J; PECKHAM, S;
2019
Integrated Care Systems: What can current reforms learn from past
research on regional co-ordination of health and care in England?
A literature review
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