1st Edition
GPs and Purchasing in the NHS The Internal Market and Beyond
By Bernard Dowling
Copyright 2000
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: The relative performance of health authorities and general practitioners as commissioners of health care services is a crucial question in the current health care policy debate, but hitherto a poorly researched area. This work addresses that topic, and represents a systematic direct comparison of GPs and health authorities as purchasers of health care... Read more
The 1991 reforms - questions, background and rationale; the quasi-market and waiting times - the hypotheses; the study - geography and methodology; differences in waiting times - myth or reality? Fund-holders' budgets via historic activity - who benefited? Case mix -crucial or irrelevance? Purchaser performance in the quasi-market; policy implications - lessons from the internal market.
Biography
Bernard Dowling
