shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In …-term care, home care, which is generally cost-efficient, could be further encouraged by giving more autonomy to patients to … plus encouragée en laissant les patients organiser plus librement les soins dont ils bénéficient. Ce Document de travail se …

the relative price of care soared through the early 2000s. Hospital budgets and their doctors’ pay are partly based on the … prevention, a new essential drugs system and far-reaching reorganisation, including hospital reform. It will be important to make …

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 …

eliminating shortages, raising efficiency and improving citizen satisfaction. Nevertheless, spending accelerated after the reforms …, and per capita spending on health is now one of the highest in the OECD. Centralisation of hospital ownership may have … increased political influence, encouraging spending that cannot be justified on cost-benefit grounds. Co-payments by patients …