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Public Services and the Private Sector: A response to the IPPR
By Allyson Pollock, Jean Shaoul, David Rowland and Stewart Player.
Revised with a new foreword by David Hinchliffe MP
Published: November 2001
The Commission on Public Private Partnerships, conducted over the past
two years by the Institute
for Public Policy Research (IPPR), was set up “to introduce greater
clarity to partnership arrangements” between the public and private
sectors and “to produce a set of authoritative guidelines which will
inform the use of partnership in the future”. It is expected to be
an important influence on the government's approach to public service
reform in coming years.
This response produced by the Health
Policy and Health Services Research Unit at UCL brings together pre-eminent
experts in the field as authors. They argue that while the Commission
was critical of certain past projects it failed to ask more fundamental
questions about the role of markets and for-profit operators in the delivery
of health care, education, long term care and other public services.
Catalyst welcomes the initiative that the IPPR has taken in opening a
debate on the role of the private sector in public service provision and
is pleased to be publishing what is sure to be an essential contribution
to this vital and necessary discussion.
Allyson Pollock is Professor of Health Policy and Health Services Research
at the School of Public Policy, University College London. Jean Shaoul
is Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Manchester University. David
Rowland and Stewart Player are researchers at the Health Policy and Health
Services Research Unit at UCL.
'Clear, informative, and authoritative, this pamphlet is essential
reading for anyone who wants to find their way in this vital debate'
- David Hinchliffe MP, Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee
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