Do small hospitals have lower quality? Evidence from the English NHS
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Does competition between hospitals improve clinical quality? A review of evidence from two eras of competition in the English NHS.
The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has proposed changes to the English National Health Service (NHS) that will extend the hospital market introduced by “New Labour” in the 2000s. 2 This was the second era of hospital competition within the NHS; the first, the “internal market,” applied throughout the UK from 1991 to 1997. Studies of the NHS markets have generally used one of two paradigms, e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113500