This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt … hospital for secondary care and hospitals had to compete with each other to attract patients to secure their revenue. One of …, we exploit the fact that choice-based reforms will create sharper financial incentives for hospitals in markets where …

Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to … compete within a market with fixed prices. This study investigates whether these reforms led to improvements in hospital … quality. We use a difference-in-difference-style estimator to test whether hospital quality (measured using mortality from …

This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt … hospital for secondary care and hospitals had to compete with each other to attract patients to secure their revenue. One of …, we exploit the fact that choice-based reforms will create sharper financial incentives for hospitals in markets where …

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … subjects this assumption to the scrutiny provided by a review of the theoretical and empirical economic evidence on choice in …

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … subjects this assumption to the scrutiny provided by a review of the theoretical and empirical economic evidence on choice in …

public policy theory into practice. He examines four ways of delivering public services: trust; targets and performance …How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of … public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered …

increase in complexity. This is not necessarily a drawback; self-organising, adaptive networks could become central to future …

available to the Government health services and care providers on a set of high-priority risk factors, with a view to improve … the quality health care and services. The survey also aimed to establish the baseline database of NCD risk factors needed …