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Author:: Burge, Peter, The King's Fund, Office of Health Economics, Devlin, Nancy, Dixon, Anna, Magee, Helen, Appleby, John, Robertson, Ruth, RAND Europe, and Picker Institute Europe
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: The policy of offering patients a choice in where they receive hospital treatment was intended to create competition between providers, encouraging efficiency and responsiveness to patients’ preferences and ultimately to drive up the quality of care. So has the policy met those aims? Since January 2006, patients requiring a referral ...

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