Guest Editorial National Schedule of Reference Costs data: Community Care Services
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The National Schedule of Reference Costs were first introduced in England in 1997 (White Paper The New NHS, 1997), with the aim of finding new ways of measuring performance and efficiency of the ‘new’ NHS. The requirement set in the White Paper was for “NHS [Hospital] Trusts to publish and benchmark their own costs on the same basis, [thus giving] Health Authorities, Primary Care Groups2 and the NHS Executive a strong lever with which to tackle inefficiency” (Department of Health (DH), 1997).
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