{"id":"https://openalex.org/W33412236","doi":null,"title":"Independent Sector Treatment Centres: a leap in the dark.","display_name":"Independent Sector Treatment Centres: a leap in the dark.","publication_year":2007,"publication_date":"2007-03-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W33412236","mag":"33412236","pmid":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17359626","pmcid":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/2042556"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2042556","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/2042556","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764455111","display_name":"PubMed Central","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Br J Gen Pract","raw_type":"Text"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["pubmed"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/2042556","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5020006986","display_name":"Mike Squires","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Mike Squires","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5020006986"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.575,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":5,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.73161022,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":88,"max":93},"biblio":{"volume":"57","issue":"536","first_page":"250","last_page":"2"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13896","display_name":"Health Services Management and Policy","score":0.9965999722480774,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3600","display_name":"General Health Professions"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/36","display_name":"Health Professions"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13896","display_name":"Health Services Management and Policy","score":0.9965999722480774,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3600","display_name":"General Health Professions"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/36","display_name":"Health Professions"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11531","display_name":"Healthcare Systems and Reforms","score":0.0012000000569969416,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2739","display_name":"Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11939","display_name":"Public-Private Partnership Projects","score":0.0003000000142492354,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1408","display_name":"Strategy and Management"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/nhs-privatisation","display_name":"NHS privatisation","score":0.8009999990463257},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/value-for-money","display_name":"value for money","score":0.7239999771118164},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/elective-surgery-waiting-times","display_name":"elective surgery waiting times","score":0.8429999947547913},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/commercial-confidentiality","display_name":"commercial confidentiality","score":0.5640000104904175},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/department-of-health","display_name":"Department of Health","score":0.5860000252723694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/health-service-capacity","display_name":"health service capacity","score":0.39100000262260437},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/health-care-innovation","display_name":"healthcare innovation","score":0.3919999897480011}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778985074","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17310301","display_name":"Indictment","level":2,"score":0.7473264932632446},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776548248","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12621536","display_name":"Judgement","level":2,"score":0.6152248978614807},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778959273","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9247597","display_name":"House of Commons","level":4,"score":0.6061381101608276},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71924100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190","display_name":"Medicine","level":0,"score":0.605742335319519},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71745522","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2476929","display_name":"Confidentiality","level":2,"score":0.5381568074226379},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2988643123","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15067276","display_name":"Health sector","level":4,"score":0.5132367610931396},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2992968740","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q868257","display_name":"Value for money","level":2,"score":0.5044070482254028},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776291640","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2912517","display_name":"Value (mathematics)","level":2,"score":0.4934453070163727},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778276147","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99826791","display_name":"Select committee","level":3,"score":0.43553173542022705},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39549134","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133080","display_name":"Public relations","level":1,"score":0.3200778365135193},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2986740045","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31207","display_name":"Health services","level":3,"score":0.29016387462615967},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C49427245","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9828451","display_name":"Commons","level":2,"score":0.26359111070632935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.19876950979232788},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.18080350756645203},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94625758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163","display_name":"Politics","level":2,"score":0.1571137011051178},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.14084649085998535},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.11009809374809265},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C100001284","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2248246","display_name":"Public economics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C99454951","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932068","display_name":"Environmental health","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2908647359","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2625603","display_name":"Population","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119857082","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2539","display_name":"Machine learning","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781440851","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35749","display_name":"Parliament","level":3,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[{"descriptor_ui":"D006801","descriptor_name":"Humans","qualifier_ui":null,"qualifier_name":null,"is_major_topic":false},{"descriptor_ui":"D013222","descriptor_name":"State Medicine","qualifier_ui":"Q000191","qualifier_name":"economics","is_major_topic":false},{"descriptor_ui":"D016304","descriptor_name":"Hospitals, Private","qualifier_ui":"Q000191","qualifier_name":"economics","is_major_topic":false},{"descriptor_ui":"D016304","descriptor_name":"Hospitals, Private","qualifier_ui":"Q000592","qualifier_name":"standards","is_major_topic":true},{"descriptor_ui":"D017048","descriptor_name":"Health Care Costs","qualifier_ui":null,"qualifier_name":null,"is_major_topic":false}],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2042556","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/2042556","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764455111","display_name":"PubMed Central","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Br J Gen Pract","raw_type":"Text"},{"id":"pmid:17359626","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17359626","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306525036","display_name":"PubMed","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners","raw_type":"Journal Article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2042556","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/2042556","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764455111","display_name":"PubMed Central","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Br J Gen Pract","raw_type":"Text"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2114977807","https://openalex.org/W2075686625","https://openalex.org/W1988919946","https://openalex.org/W2011297173","https://openalex.org/W2412347126","https://openalex.org/W2332131301","https://openalex.org/W1989508408","https://openalex.org/W2026984084","https://openalex.org/W2008899868","https://openalex.org/W1793761507"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"The":[0,120,241],"recently":[1],"published":[2],"House":[3],"of":[4,19,22,34,38,55,65,96,102,112,165,197,211,231,239,243,247,251,256,297],"Commons'":[5],"Health":[6,198,252],"Committee's":[7],"report":[8,121],"on":[9,57,177,228],"Independent":[10],"Sector":[11],"Treatment":[12,261],"Centres":[13,262],"(ISTCs),":[14],"is":[15],"yet":[16],"another":[17],"indictment":[18],"the":[20,25,30,39,53,100,104,113,163,169,172,178,195,208,221,237,245,249,277],"introduction":[21],"privatisation":[23],"into":[24],"NHS.\n\nThe":[26],"committee,":[27],"examined":[28],"both":[29],"Phase":[31,46],"1":[32],"implementation":[33],"ISTCs":[35,56,181],"and":[36,60,77,150,260,271,283],"some":[37],"changes":[40],"that":[41,115,123,137,151,159,180,287],"had":[42,91,108,117,125],"been":[43,92,118],"made":[44,127],"in":[45,63,168,236,264,276],"2.":[47],"Its":[48],"brief":[49],"was":[50,153,285],"to":[51,132,189,202,226,266,294],"examine":[52],"effect":[54],"NHS":[58,145,258],"services":[59],"their":[61],"effectiveness":[62],"terms":[64],"value":[66,183],"for":[67,72,80,184],"money,":[68],"reduced":[69],"waiting":[70,269],"times":[71,270],"elective":[73],"surgery,":[74],"increased":[75],"innovation,":[76],"improved":[78],"training":[79],"medical":[81],"staff.\n\nThe":[82],"report's":[83],"conclusions":[84],"were":[85,139,161,187,223,281],"almost":[86],"entirely":[87],"negative.":[88],"Although":[89],"there":[90,152],"a":[93,128,191,229,254],"great":[94],"deal":[95],"hype":[97],"associated":[98],"with":[99],"establishment":[101,242],"ISTCs,":[103,209],"committee":[105,173],"found":[106],"they":[107,116,138,160],"achieved":[109],"very":[110],"few":[111],"goals":[114],"set.":[119],"concluded":[122],"\u2018ISTCs":[124],"not":[126,200],"major":[129],"direct":[130],"contribution":[131],"increasing":[133],"capacity\u2019":[134],"(page":[135,148,157,215,300],"3),":[136],"\u2018not":[140],"necessarily":[141],"more":[142,273],"efficient":[143],"than":[144],"treatment":[146],"centres\u2019":[147],"3)":[149,158],"\u2018no":[154],"convincing":[155],"evidence\u2019":[156],"driving":[162],"adoption":[164],"innovative":[166],"practice":[167],"NHS.":[170],"Furthermore,":[171],"cast":[174],"significant":[175],"doubts":[176],"claim":[179],"provide":[182,272],"money":[185],"but":[186],"unable":[188],"make":[190],"firm":[192],"judgement":[193],"because":[194,210],"Department":[196,238,250],"would":[199,290],"release":[201],"them":[203],"important":[204],"financial":[205],"information":[206,227],"concerning":[207],"alleged":[212],"\u2018commercial":[213],"confidentiality\u2019":[214],"4).":[216],"In":[217],"conducting":[218],"its":[219],"investigation,":[220],"MPs":[222],"denied":[224],"access":[225],"number":[230,296],"occasions":[232],"by":[233],"senior":[234],"figures":[235],"Health.\n\n###":[240],"ISTCs\n\nAt":[244],"start":[246],"2002,":[248],"announced":[253],"programme":[255],"building":[257],"Diagnostic":[259],"(DTCs)":[263],"order":[265],"reduce":[267],"patient":[268],"diagnostic":[274],"centres":[275,280],"community.":[278],"Forty-six":[279],"planned":[282],"it":[284],"decided":[286],"each":[288],"centre":[289],"receive":[291],"funding":[292],"according":[293],"\u2018the":[295],"patients":[298],"seen\u2019":[299],"\u2026":[301]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-31T12:09:11.096373","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}