This paper analyses NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT), a relatively new policy that shifts UK primary care premises into corporate ownership. LIFT is a more version of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), and may indicate the future of neoliberal welfare services. Like PFI, LIFT foregrounds issues of risk and, enabling their reconceptualisation. This echoes certain themes present in the of risk, including the idea that the welfare state has created and amplified, than managed, risk. Under LIFT, risks are constructed as (a) primarily economic (b) primarily from the point of view of the large commercial organisations involved. presented here depicts banks as risk averse, challenging assumptions that firms display risk-taking behaviour.
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Rachel Aldred (2008) studied this question.