Public, Private or Neither? Analysing the publicness of health care social enterprises
Social enterprises have been actively encouraged to spin out of the National Health Service (NHS) on the grounds that they can deliver more innovative, cost-efficient and responsive services. This is arguably achieved through a combination of the best of the public, third and private
sectors. This article explores this idea by bringing together empirical data from interviews with NHS spin-outs and a framework of ‘publicness’. By focusing on NHS spin-outs, we look at what happens to an organization’s publicness when it leaves the public sector yet continues
to deliver publicly funded services.
Keywords: Social enterprise; health; publicness; right to request; spin out
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 2: Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Publication date: 20 April 2016
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