Carol Storey
Health and Social Care Research Fellow, 2009
Carol has been involved in freelance research since leaving Policy Exchange including, most notably, work on alcohol following on from her research for our publication Hitting the Bottle. In addition to Hitting the Bottle, Carol also worked on a project looking at choice in primary care.
Which Doctor? proposes a radical new framework to tackle the inequality of primary health care provision. The proposals recommend that the majority of NHS funding (£84.4 billion in 2010–11) be distributed on the basis of a patients’ age and postcodes, and that GPs be financially incentivised to set up practices in areas of most need through a ‘patient premium’.
Policy Exchange's new report, Hitting the bottle recommends a fundamental overhaul of the alcohol duty regime, to allow for prices to be raised on super-strength beer and ciders, and to promote the production and consumption of lower alcohol products.