Much of the implicit rationing said to characterise British health care occurs as doctors decide what resources to allocate to individual patients. This paper examines this process using data from case studies of selection of patients for cardiac surgery and admission to a specialist...

This paper draws on audio-recordings of a Health Authority's contract monitoring meetings with hospital providers to examine the nature of interactions between managers and clinical professionals in the British National Health Service internal market. It describes how managers and professionals...

Purpose: This paper aims to identify factors influencing the likelihood of consumers trying muscadine wines and among those who have tried them, willingness to pay (WTP) for an in-state produced muscadine wine. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a 2015 survey of wine consumers residing...