health care. The review considers several interlocking aspects of the current English choice policy: competition between …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 …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to … assumption in an important part of the health care market by examining whether quality affects the choice of family doctor. We … the determinants of choice and, in particular, whether quality affects choice. The English setting is a particularly …

/3 and 2010/11 and (b) whether this effect changed after the introduction of Choice policy in 2006 which gave patients the … right to a wider choice of hospital. For AMI and hip fracture, hospitals with more rivals had higher mortality at the … market structure predated the introduction of Choice. Market structure had no effect on stroke mortality. …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …

This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care … about their care and the scope of competition between hospitals. …

increased competition between healthcare providers on prescription of antibiotics. We make use of a competition- inducing reform … different subcategories of antibiotics. The results indicate that increased competition had a positive and significant effect on …

consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints …

framework explaining prosthesis choice, considering the roles and preferences of the patient, surgeon, hospital and supplier …. This provides a set of hypotheses tested using an econometric model in which the diversity of prosthesis choice at the …