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Total purchasing and the management of emergency hospital activity

Author:

King's Fund, Health Services Management Centre (University of Birmingham), McLeod, Hugh, and Raftery, James

Publication date:

2000

Abstract:

This report focuses on the 16 TPPs in England which pursued the objective of reducing acute hospital emergency admissions and/or length of stay to at least the end of the second 'live' year, March 1998. The analysis of hospital episode statistics was undertaken in order to establish whether the action ...