Interview Data on Practices, Regulation and Accountability in Maharashtra's Private Healthcare Sector, 2017-2019

This research was about the expansion and changing face of private sector hospital care and related diagnostic services through an organised, and increasingly transnational, healthcare industry. The research team was composed of social scientists from King's College London and public health researchers and health rights activists from India. To explore this issue, we constructed a detailed case study of the sector in Maharashtra State, India which has many expanding healthcare hubs. We interviewed a wide range of medical practitioners, managers, facility owners, regulators, policy makers, patient organisations and health rights advocates, in order to examine the implications of these emerging forms of healthcare delivery and their business and management practices for the healthcare sector, for medical practitioners and for healthcare users.