improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an … family doctor practices. We find that patients do respond to quality: a one standard deviation increase in a publicly … available measure of clinical quality would increase the number of patients a practice would attract by around 15%. …

the 10% improvement in the general practice quality of stroke care between 2004/5 and 2007/8 reduced 2007/8 hospital …

, revision and redo rates and three patient reported indicators to examine to examine the relationship between the quality of …We examine whether a hospitals quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … determine whether a hospital will have higher quality when its rivals have higher quality. We then apply spatial econometric …

We examine how public sector third-party purchasers and hospitals negotiate quality targets when a fixed proportion of … hospital revenue is required to be linked to quality. We develop a bargaining model linking the number of quality targets to …/11, we find that the number of quality targets is determined by the purchaser's population health and its budget, the …

a Vickrey-Salop model of GP price and quality competition and test its predictions using a dataset with individual GP …

, revision and redo rates, and three patient reported indicators, to examine the relationship between the quality of hospitals …We examine whether a hospital's quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … whether a hospital will increase its quality if its rivals increase their quality. We then apply spatial econometric methods …

general taxation. GPs are horizontally and vertically differentiated and compete via their imperfect observed quality. We … focus on the way in which patient uncertainty and switching costs interact and the implications for GP's choice of quality …. We show that for any given capitation fee quality is lower and the incentive effects of the fee on quality are smaller …