Dr José-Luis Fernández

Deputy Director & Associate Professorial Research Fellow

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Research Interests

Dr Jose Luis Fernandez is Deputy Director and Associat Professorial Research Fellow at PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science. A health and social care economist, he specialises in ageing-related policies, the interaction between health and social care, and the economic evaluation of health and social care services and systems.

In 2010, he co-founded the International Long-term care Policy Network (ILPN) linking academics and policy makers on the analysis of long-term care, and also set-up the Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit together with the universities of Kent and York, and the Quality and Outcomes Research Unit with universities of Kent and Oxford. He has advised bodies such as the English Department of Health, the UK Treasury and the World Health Organisation.

Jose-Luis' Google Scholar profile can be found here.

José-Luis Fernández's Publications

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The impact of Individual Budgets on the targeting of support: findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England (2012)

Jones K, Netten A, Fernández J-L, Knapp M, Challis D, Glendinning C, Jacobs S, Manthorpe J, Moran N, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

Public Money and Management 32, 6, 417-424

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Implementing consumer choice in long-term care: the impact of individual budgets on social care providers in England (2011)

Wilberforce M, Glendinning C, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jacobs S, Jones K, Knapp M, Manthorpe J, Netten A, Stevens M

Social Policy and Administration 45, 5, 593-612

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Personalisation and partnership: competing objectives in English adult social care? The Individual Budget Pilot Projects and the NHS (2011)

Glendinning C, Moran N, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jacobs S, Jones K, Knapp M, Manthorpe J, Netten A, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

Social Policy and Society 10, 2, 151-162

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Changes over time: the motivations of independent-sector care-home managers and owners in England between 1994 and 2003 (2011)

Matosevic T, Knapp M, Le Grand J, Fernández J-L

Ageing and Society 31, 8, 1389-1405

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Joining up government by integrating funding streams? The experiences of the Individual Budget pilot projects for older and disabled people in England (2011)

Moran N, Glendinning C, Stevens M, Manthorpe J, Jacobs S, Wilberforce M, Knapp M, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Netten A

International Journal of Public Administration 34, 4, 232-243

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Assessing the role of increasing choice in English social care services (2011)

Stevens M, Glendinning C, Jacobs S, Moran N, Challis D, Manthorpe J, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Knapp M, Netten A, Wilberforce M

Journal of Social Policy 40, 2, 257-274

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Equity, efficiency, and financial risk of alternative arrangements for funding long-term care systems in an ageing society (2010)

Fernández J-L, Forder J

Oxford Review of Economic Policy 26, 4, 713-733

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Social care services in England: policy evolution, current debates and market structure (2010)

Fernández J-L, Snell T, Knapp M

Cuadernos Aragoneses de Economia 19, 265-282

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Measuring quality in social care services: theory and practice (2010)

Malley J, Fernández J-L

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 81, 4, 559-582

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Individual budget projects come under the microscope (2009)

Manthorpe J, Stevens M, Challis D, Netten A, Glendinning C, Knapp M, Wilberforce M, Jacobs S, Jones K, Moran C, Fernández J-L

Mental Health Today 8, 10, 22-26

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Implementing the reimbursement scheme - views of health and social care staff in six high performing sites (2008)

Baumann M, Evans S, Perkins M, Curtis L, Netten A, Fernández J-L, Huxley P

Research, Policy and Planning 26, 2, 101-112

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Consequences of local variations in social care on the performance of the acute health care sector (2008)

Fernández J-L, Forder J

Applied Economics 40, 12, 1503-1518

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Evaluating the individual budget pilot projects (2007)

Glendinning C, Challis D, Fernández J-L, Jones K, Knapp M, Manthorpe J, Netten A, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

Journal of Care Services Management 1, 2, 123-128

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Organisation and features of hospital, intermediate care and social services in English sites with low rates of delayed discharge (2007)

Baumann M, Evans S, Perkins M, Curtis L, Netten A, Fernández J-L, Huxley P

Health and Social Care in the Community 15, 4, 295-305

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Care-home providers as professionals: understanding the motivations of care-home providers in England (2007)

Matosevic T, Knapp M, Kendall J, Henderson C, Fernández J-L

Ageing and Society 27, 1, 103-126

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Direct payments in England: Factors linked to variations in local provision (2007)

Fernández J-L, Kendall J, Davey V, Knapp M

Journal of Social Policy 36, 1, 97-121

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Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of Escitalopram versus Venlafaxine XR in Major Depressive Disorder (2005)

Fernández J-L, Montgomery S, François C

PharmacoEconomics 23, 2, 155-167

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Does diagnosis determine delivery? The Islington study of older people’s needs and health care costs (2004)

Nelson T, Fernández J-L, Livingston G, Knapp M, Katona C

Psychological Medicine 34, 1, 147-155

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Has increasing service inputs per client improved equity and efficiency in UK community care? (1997)

Fernández J-L, Davies B

The Gerontologist 37, 345

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Case management, other community care costs, needs and outcomes (1996)

Davies B, Warburton R, Fernández J-L

Hong Kong Journal of Gerontology 10, Suppl, 250-254

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