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 …

evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare … offset costly quality competition. …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … introduction of competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. We find that the effect of …