When does marketisation lead to privatisation? Profit-making in English health services after the 2012 Health and Social Care Act
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When does marketisation lead to privatisation? Profit-making in English health services after the 2012 Health and Social Care Act.
Governments world-wide have attempted to use market mechanisms and privatisation to increase the quality and/or reduce the cost of healthcare. England's Health and Social Care Act 2012 is an attempt to promote privatisation through marketisation in the National Health Service (NHS). While the health policy literature tends to assume that privatisation follows from private-sector entry points, w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.045