shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In …

the relative price of care soared through the early 2000s. Hospital budgets and their doctors’ pay are partly based on the … pharmaceuticals they prescribe and sell, whose prices are regulated and involve considerable cross-subsidisation. Faced with these … prevention, a new essential drugs system and far-reaching reorganisation, including hospital reform. It will be important to make …

, and per capita spending on health is now one of the highest in the OECD. Centralisation of hospital ownership may have …

health insurance; better coordinating among major public actors; improving hospital management; strengthening the gate …

primary health care services; (iii) modernising hospital administration; and (iv) further tightening control over …

promote restructuring in the hospital sector. Quality should be improved by increasing the availability of effective new drugs …