Dusheiko, Mark; Gravelle, Hugh; Jacobs, Rowena; Smith, Peter - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003
In many health care systems primary care physicians act as ‘gatekeepers’ to secondary care. We investigates the impact of the UK fundholding scheme under which general practices could elect to hold a budget to meet the costs of elective surgery for their patients. We use a differences in...