Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

This evidence scan was commissioned to support the Health Foundation’s work examining the implications of the NHS’s ‘financial gap’ for quality of care.* It aimed to provide evidence on austerity and health care from a wider international perspective, focusing in particular on the following four questions: 1. What policy responses have health systems internationally taken in response to the financial crisis? 2. How effective have these measures been in achieving cost savings and efficiencies? 3. What impact have these measures had – desired or unintended – on the quality of care? 4. What can the UK NHS learn from experiences and evidence from elsewhere?The project took a case study approach, gathering and analysing evidence for the following six countries: Canada, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. In relation to Canada, our analysis principally focused on the impact of the early 1990s financial crisis. The countries were selected to provide variation on the following criteria: scale of the financial crisis and nature of the response; comparability of the health system to the NHS; availability of evidence, determined after an initial scoping search.