Allyson M Pollock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allyson M Pollock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allyson M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollock |
| SIGNATURE | POLLOCK A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7388-3110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Waiting times and admissions policies in England and Scotland before and after privatisation of services for NHS elective hip and knee replacement surgery in England between 2008 and 2019
BACKGROUND: In the UK, where healthcare is a devolved matter, England and Scotland have different policies to reduce waiting lists for elective surgery. England is redirecting NHS funding to the private sector using commercial contracts, Scotland is expanding in-house capacity. OBJECTIVE: To compare trends in admissions, waiting times and inequalities in England and Scotland for hip and knee replacement surgery between April 1997 and March 2019. …
The Struggles That Led to the Unwise Demise of the Public Health Laboratory Service, 1979–2003, in the Context of Changing Economic Policy
The Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) was an integral part of England’s post-war communicable disease control. Its central reference and surveillance facilities and network of laboratories in NHS hospitals was an international exemplar. Under neoliberal economic policy from the 1980s it faced intense scrutiny and expenditure constraints. Attempts to transfer its peripheral laboratories to the NHS were successfully opposed by arguing that pu…
Private sector expansion and the widening NHS treatment gap between rich and poor in England
Parliament has imposed duties on the government and NHS in England aimed at reducing health inequalities. AIM: to understand the effect on inequalities of government policies, which require the NHS in England to outsource elective surgery to the private sector. We analysed the numbers of admissions for hip and knee replacement surgery from the least and most deprived population quintiles in three time periods: before the introduction of the polic…
Global Burden Disease Estimates for Major Depressive Disorders (MDD)
Children in poverty
Children have been disproportionately affected by the response to COVID‐19 despite having a negligible risk of morbidity and mortality. Moreover, the response to COVID‐19 has magnified the inequalities generated by the decade‐long austerity regime imposed by the coalition, and current government. The numbers of children living in poverty are rising: some 30% of children, amounting to over four million children, are living in relative poverty in t…
Imposing Compulsory Rugby Union on Schoolchildren
ObjectiveTo establish the extent to which Rugby Union was a compulsory physical education activity in state-funded secondary schools in England and to understand the views of Subject Leaders for Physical Education with respect to injury risk.MethodA cross-sectional research study using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) from 288 state-funded secondary schools.ResultsRugby Union was delivered in 81% (n = 234 of 288) of state…
The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm
The Lack of Age Representation in the Governance of Rugby Union in England
Diversity and representation in sport governing bodies has become an issue for both public discussion and academic debate in recent times. Previous work has primarily centered on gender inequalities within the forever changing masculine terrain of sport. However, no work has yet examined the representation and participation of young people in the decision-making structures of sporting bodies. This paper holds up England’s Rugby Union for organiza…
Availability of brands of six essential medicines in 124 pharmacies in Maharashtra
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to assess the availability and rational use of six essential medicines in private retail outlets in Maharashtra state. The study focuses on the range of brands for each medicine, and the availability of these brands in the pharmacies. The medicines were chosen because they are included in the World Health Organization's (WHO) essential medicines list (EML), the Indian national and Maharashtra state medicines l…
Unintentional injury in England
BACKGROUND: A pilot injury data collection exercise at the emergency departments (EDs) of Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (OUH) ran from 2012 to 2014 to inform the current development of the new NHS England emergency care data set. METHODS: Data collected at the EDs of OUH 1 January 2012 to 30 March 2014 analysed for Oxford City and Cherwell District Council areas. Data completeness and quality checked a…
A "liberalização" do Serviço Nacional de Saúde da Inglaterra
A recente reforma do Serviço Nacional de Saúde (NHS) inglês por meio do Health and Social Care Act de 2012 introduziu mudanças importantes na organização, gestão e prestação de serviços públicos de saúde na Inglaterra. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar as reformas do NHS no contexto histórico de predomínio de teorias neoliberais desde 1980 e discutir o processo de "liberalização" do NHS. São identificados e analisados três momentos: (i) gradativ…
Aid conditionalities, international Good Manufacturing Practice standards and local production rights
BACKGROUND: Local pharmaceutical production has been endorsed by the WHO as a means of addressing health priorities of developing countries. However, local producers of essential medicines must comply with international pharmaceutical standards in order to be eligible to compete in donor tenders. These standards determine production rights for on-patent and off-patent medicines, and guide international procurement of medicines. We reviewed the li…
Civil Society Organizations and medicines policy change
Social networks and health policy
Classification Problems and the Dividing Line Between Government and the Market
In this paper we argue that national accounting categories provide an inadequate basis for evaluating differences between public and private sector services. This is because accounting categories rely on economic concepts such as market price but do not take account of substantive public policy goals such as universality. The argument has important consequences for the structures and systems of delivery especially where nonprofit providers and so…
Treatment gap in depression
Purpose Since 2001 treatment of depression has been a main priority of the World Health Organisation (WHO) public health agenda. WHO policy reports, such as the World Health Report 2001, state that there is an unmet need of depression, referred to as the treatment gap. This report aims to explore how the treatment gap is defined and measured. Methods WHO policy documents were searched and a literature review using key terms; treatment gap and dep…
The final frontier
The authors describe the incremental approach to the marketisation of the English National Health Service (NHS) since the introduction of an ‘internal market’ in 1990 until the 2010 White Paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, and the subsequent Health and Social Care Bill published in January 2011. The introduction of a competitive market for a universal, tax-financed health system requires fundamental changes in regulation in order…
A Review of the Evidence of Third Sector Performance and Its Relevance for a Universal Comprehensive Health System
UK policy promotes third sector organisations as providers of NHS funded health and social care. We examine the evidence for this policy through a systematic literature review. Our results highlight several problems of studies comparing non-profits with other provider forms, questioning their usefulness for drawing lessons outside the place of study. Most studies deem contextual factors and the regulatory framework in which providers operate as m…
Non-Profit Distribution
This article provides an analysis of the Scottish Government's approach to the use of private finance in public services. It examines the budgetary drivers behind the policy in Scotland and assesses its cost-efficiency. In doing so, it considers first the standard private finance initiative (PFI) model, and then turns to the ‘non-profit distributing’ (NPD) model – a variant of PFI developed in Scotland and one that is, at the time of writing, uni…
Independent sector treatment centres
MMR safety, and nearly a quarter (22.7%, n = 60) were rated as ''mixed''. In 2000, despite growing public concerns and widespread media coverage, fewer than 20 comment pieces were published. From 2001-2003 the tone of many articles was negative, mixed or neutral, thus conveying ambiguous or negative messages about MMR safety to health professionals, though from 2004 the tone changed and most comment pieces were broadly positive. Overall less than…
Catching waves
Absent voices compromise the effectiveness of nursing home regulation
Over the last decade there has been consistent pressure for the healthcare services in the UK to become more accountable to users. Now over half the healthcare beds in England are in the privatised nursing home sector, and regulation of the sector is under reform. Yet requirements for user accountability have not been reflected in these reforms. In other sectors, consumer involvement in regulatory agencies and processes is seen as important to th…
The use of acute hospital services by elderly residents of nursing and residential care homes
The objective of this study was to compare hospitalisation rates by cause of admission, hospital death rates and length of stay for residents from nursing and residential care homes with those in the community. This is a retrospective study of acute hospital emergency admissions in one health district, Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth between April 1996 and March 1997. Data linkage and manual look up were used to derive emergency hospital admissions…
Long-term care
The neo-liberal assault on the welfare state has not always been direct. The acknowledged popularity of the UK NHS has resulted in governments using covert means to undermine its core principles, namely universality and equity. Long-term care with its vulnerable client base is an important example of how care has become a private responsibility with little or no debate or discussion. Using the social security regulations, the Conservative governm…
Access to health care in nursing homes
The objective of the study was to establish the arrangements for provision of general practitioner (GP), nursing advice, chiropody, physiotherapy and speech and language services to nursing homes and to establish the charging policies for those services. To this end a telephone survey of the managers of the 51 nursing homes registered with one English health authority, Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority, was undertaken. Forty-nine hom…
Catching waves
A "liberalização" do Serviço Nacional de Saúde da Inglaterra
A recente reforma do Serviço Nacional de Saúde (NHS) inglês por meio do Health and Social Care Act de 2012 introduziu mudanças importantes na organização, gestão e prestação de serviços públicos de saúde na Inglaterra. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar as reformas do NHS no contexto histórico de predomínio de teorias neoliberais desde 1980 e discutir o processo de "liberalização" do NHS. São identificados e analisados três momentos: (i) gradativ…
The final frontier
The authors describe the incremental approach to the marketisation of the English National Health Service (NHS) since the introduction of an ‘internal market’ in 1990 until the 2010 White Paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, and the subsequent Health and Social Care Bill published in January 2011. The introduction of a competitive market for a universal, tax-financed health system requires fundamental changes in regulation in order…
Long-term care
The neo-liberal assault on the welfare state has not always been direct. The acknowledged popularity of the UK NHS has resulted in governments using covert means to undermine its core principles, namely universality and equity. Long-term care with its vulnerable client base is an important example of how care has become a private responsibility with little or no debate or discussion. Using the social security regulations, the Conservative governm…
Civil Society Organizations and medicines policy change
Social networks and health policy
The use of acute hospital services by elderly residents of nursing and residential care homes
The objective of this study was to compare hospitalisation rates by cause of admission, hospital death rates and length of stay for residents from nursing and residential care homes with those in the community. This is a retrospective study of acute hospital emergency admissions in one health district, Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth between April 1996 and March 1997. Data linkage and manual look up were used to derive emergency hospital admissions…
Imposing Compulsory Rugby Union on Schoolchildren
ObjectiveTo establish the extent to which Rugby Union was a compulsory physical education activity in state-funded secondary schools in England and to understand the views of Subject Leaders for Physical Education with respect to injury risk.MethodA cross-sectional research study using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) from 288 state-funded secondary schools.ResultsRugby Union was delivered in 81% (n = 234 of 288) of state…
Non-Profit Distribution
This article provides an analysis of the Scottish Government's approach to the use of private finance in public services. It examines the budgetary drivers behind the policy in Scotland and assesses its cost-efficiency. In doing so, it considers first the standard private finance initiative (PFI) model, and then turns to the ‘non-profit distributing’ (NPD) model – a variant of PFI developed in Scotland and one that is, at the time of writing, uni…
Absent voices compromise the effectiveness of nursing home regulation
Over the last decade there has been consistent pressure for the healthcare services in the UK to become more accountable to users. Now over half the healthcare beds in England are in the privatised nursing home sector, and regulation of the sector is under reform. Yet requirements for user accountability have not been reflected in these reforms. In other sectors, consumer involvement in regulatory agencies and processes is seen as important to th…
Access to health care in nursing homes
The objective of the study was to establish the arrangements for provision of general practitioner (GP), nursing advice, chiropody, physiotherapy and speech and language services to nursing homes and to establish the charging policies for those services. To this end a telephone survey of the managers of the 51 nursing homes registered with one English health authority, Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority, was undertaken. Forty-nine hom…
The Lack of Age Representation in the Governance of Rugby Union in England
Diversity and representation in sport governing bodies has become an issue for both public discussion and academic debate in recent times. Previous work has primarily centered on gender inequalities within the forever changing masculine terrain of sport. However, no work has yet examined the representation and participation of young people in the decision-making structures of sporting bodies. This paper holds up England’s Rugby Union for organiza…
Classification Problems and the Dividing Line Between Government and the Market
In this paper we argue that national accounting categories provide an inadequate basis for evaluating differences between public and private sector services. This is because accounting categories rely on economic concepts such as market price but do not take account of substantive public policy goals such as universality. The argument has important consequences for the structures and systems of delivery especially where nonprofit providers and so…
Rationing — Implicit, Explicit or merely complicit
Human cancer
Trends in colorectal cancer care in southern England, 1989-1993
The monitoring of site specific trends in admission, treatments, and procedures on a population basis should be a core requirement of health authorities to inform needs assessment, resource allocation, and service planning. The rise in admissions and chemotherapy treatments have implications for drug costs, laboratory and inpatient services, monitoring, and clinical audit
Access to health care in nursing homes
The objective of the study was to establish the arrangements for provision of general practitioner (GP), nursing advice, chiropody, physiotherapy and speech and language services to nursing homes and to establish the charging policies for those services. To this end a telephone survey of the managers of the 51 nursing homes registered with one English health authority, Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority, was undertaken. Forty-nine hom…
Absent voices compromise the effectiveness of nursing home regulation
Over the last decade there has been consistent pressure for the healthcare services in the UK to become more accountable to users. Now over half the healthcare beds in England are in the privatised nursing home sector, and regulation of the sector is under reform. Yet requirements for user accountability have not been reflected in these reforms. In other sectors, consumer involvement in regulatory agencies and processes is seen as important to th…
The use of acute hospital services by elderly residents of nursing and residential care homes
The objective of this study was to compare hospitalisation rates by cause of admission, hospital death rates and length of stay for residents from nursing and residential care homes with those in the community. This is a retrospective study of acute hospital emergency admissions in one health district, Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth between April 1996 and March 1997. Data linkage and manual look up were used to derive emergency hospital admissions…
Long-term care
The neo-liberal assault on the welfare state has not always been direct. The acknowledged popularity of the UK NHS has resulted in governments using covert means to undermine its core principles, namely universality and equity. Long-term care with its vulnerable client base is an important example of how care has become a private responsibility with little or no debate or discussion. Using the social security regulations, the Conservative governm…
Catching waves
Non-Profit Distribution
This article provides an analysis of the Scottish Government's approach to the use of private finance in public services. It examines the budgetary drivers behind the policy in Scotland and assesses its cost-efficiency. In doing so, it considers first the standard private finance initiative (PFI) model, and then turns to the ‘non-profit distributing’ (NPD) model – a variant of PFI developed in Scotland and one that is, at the time of writing, uni…
Independent sector treatment centres
MMR safety, and nearly a quarter (22.7%, n = 60) were rated as ''mixed''. In 2000, despite growing public concerns and widespread media coverage, fewer than 20 comment pieces were published. From 2001-2003 the tone of many articles was negative, mixed or neutral, thus conveying ambiguous or negative messages about MMR safety to health professionals, though from 2004 the tone changed and most comment pieces were broadly positive. Overall less than…
A Review of the Evidence of Third Sector Performance and Its Relevance for a Universal Comprehensive Health System
UK policy promotes third sector organisations as providers of NHS funded health and social care. We examine the evidence for this policy through a systematic literature review. Our results highlight several problems of studies comparing non-profits with other provider forms, questioning their usefulness for drawing lessons outside the place of study. Most studies deem contextual factors and the regulatory framework in which providers operate as m…
Classification Problems and the Dividing Line Between Government and the Market
In this paper we argue that national accounting categories provide an inadequate basis for evaluating differences between public and private sector services. This is because accounting categories rely on economic concepts such as market price but do not take account of substantive public policy goals such as universality. The argument has important consequences for the structures and systems of delivery especially where nonprofit providers and so…
Treatment gap in depression
Purpose Since 2001 treatment of depression has been a main priority of the World Health Organisation (WHO) public health agenda. WHO policy reports, such as the World Health Report 2001, state that there is an unmet need of depression, referred to as the treatment gap. This report aims to explore how the treatment gap is defined and measured. Methods WHO policy documents were searched and a literature review using key terms; treatment gap and dep…
The final frontier
The authors describe the incremental approach to the marketisation of the English National Health Service (NHS) since the introduction of an ‘internal market’ in 1990 until the 2010 White Paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, and the subsequent Health and Social Care Bill published in January 2011. The introduction of a competitive market for a universal, tax-financed health system requires fundamental changes in regulation in order…
Aid conditionalities, international Good Manufacturing Practice standards and local production rights
BACKGROUND: Local pharmaceutical production has been endorsed by the WHO as a means of addressing health priorities of developing countries. However, local producers of essential medicines must comply with international pharmaceutical standards in order to be eligible to compete in donor tenders. These standards determine production rights for on-patent and off-patent medicines, and guide international procurement of medicines. We reviewed the li…
Civil Society Organizations and medicines policy change
Social networks and health policy
A "liberalização" do Serviço Nacional de Saúde da Inglaterra
A recente reforma do Serviço Nacional de Saúde (NHS) inglês por meio do Health and Social Care Act de 2012 introduziu mudanças importantes na organização, gestão e prestação de serviços públicos de saúde na Inglaterra. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar as reformas do NHS no contexto histórico de predomínio de teorias neoliberais desde 1980 e discutir o processo de "liberalização" do NHS. São identificados e analisados três momentos: (i) gradativ…
Unintentional injury in England
BACKGROUND: A pilot injury data collection exercise at the emergency departments (EDs) of Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (OUH) ran from 2012 to 2014 to inform the current development of the new NHS England emergency care data set. METHODS: Data collected at the EDs of OUH 1 January 2012 to 30 March 2014 analysed for Oxford City and Cherwell District Council areas. Data completeness and quality checked a…
Availability of brands of six essential medicines in 124 pharmacies in Maharashtra
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to assess the availability and rational use of six essential medicines in private retail outlets in Maharashtra state. The study focuses on the range of brands for each medicine, and the availability of these brands in the pharmacies. The medicines were chosen because they are included in the World Health Organization's (WHO) essential medicines list (EML), the Indian national and Maharashtra state medicines l…
The Lack of Age Representation in the Governance of Rugby Union in England
Diversity and representation in sport governing bodies has become an issue for both public discussion and academic debate in recent times. Previous work has primarily centered on gender inequalities within the forever changing masculine terrain of sport. However, no work has yet examined the representation and participation of young people in the decision-making structures of sporting bodies. This paper holds up England’s Rugby Union for organiza…
The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm
Children in poverty
Children have been disproportionately affected by the response to COVID‐19 despite having a negligible risk of morbidity and mortality. Moreover, the response to COVID‐19 has magnified the inequalities generated by the decade‐long austerity regime imposed by the coalition, and current government. The numbers of children living in poverty are rising: some 30% of children, amounting to over four million children, are living in relative poverty in t…
Imposing Compulsory Rugby Union on Schoolchildren
ObjectiveTo establish the extent to which Rugby Union was a compulsory physical education activity in state-funded secondary schools in England and to understand the views of Subject Leaders for Physical Education with respect to injury risk.MethodA cross-sectional research study using data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) from 288 state-funded secondary schools.ResultsRugby Union was delivered in 81% (n = 234 of 288) of state…
Private sector expansion and the widening NHS treatment gap between rich and poor in England
Parliament has imposed duties on the government and NHS in England aimed at reducing health inequalities. AIM: to understand the effect on inequalities of government policies, which require the NHS in England to outsource elective surgery to the private sector. We analysed the numbers of admissions for hip and knee replacement surgery from the least and most deprived population quintiles in three time periods: before the introduction of the polic…
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