ProfessorCarol Propper
Chair in Economics
Department of Economics and Public Policy - Business School
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- Chair in EconomicsDepartment of Economics and Public Policy - Business School
- 020 7594 9291 (Work)
- 414, City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
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 researchView 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
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 researchView 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