A comparative analysis of Social Impact Bond and conventional financing approaches to health service commissioning in England: the case of social prescribing

TY - JOUR

T1 - A comparative analysis of Social Impact Bond and conventional financing approaches to health service commissioning in England: the case of social prescribing

AU - Dayson, C.

AU - Fraser, A.

AU - Lowe, T.

PY - 2019/8/2

Y1 - 2019/8/2

N2 - The article compares two social prescribing interventions in Northern England. One was financed through a Social Impact Bond (SIB) and the other was financed in a more conventional way. It utilises a comparative approach to understand the extent to which different methods of financing social prescribing conform to key features of the New Public Management (NPM) or New Public Governance (NPG) in their design and implementation. It finds that a SIB approach tends towards NPM during programme design and implementation and that this creates challenges for social prescribing programmes, the complexity of which appear better suited to an NPG-based relational approach.

AB - The article compares two social prescribing interventions in Northern England. One was financed through a Social Impact Bond (SIB) and the other was financed in a more conventional way. It utilises a comparative approach to understand the extent to which different methods of financing social prescribing conform to key features of the New Public Management (NPM) or New Public Governance (NPG) in their design and implementation. It finds that a SIB approach tends towards NPM during programme design and implementation and that this creates challenges for social prescribing programmes, the complexity of which appear better suited to an NPG-based relational approach.

U2 - 10.1080/13876988.2019.1643614

DO - 10.1080/13876988.2019.1643614

M3 - Article

SN - 1572-5448

JO - Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

JF - Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

ER -