The largest challenge of the Spending Review is not to identify the processes and procedures of the Public Administration that need to be modified, simplified or cancelled in order to reduce costs and spur growth, two things that Italy desperately needs. The true challenge is to guarantee the...

Patient-centred policies should consider the heterogeneity of patients’ expectations to identify individualized treatments that would aid in optimizing patient satisfaction and wellbeing, as well as overall treatment effectiveness. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

Objectives In many healthcare systems of affluent countries, general practitioners (GPs) are encouraged to work in collaborative arrangements to increase patients' accessibility and the quality of care. There are two lines of thought regarding the ways in which belonging to a network can affect...