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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 ...
The dynamics of primary care commissioning : a close up of Total Purchasing pilots : analysis and implications of eleven case studies

Author:

Evans, David, Wyke, Sally, Abbott, Stephen, Killoran, Amanda, Mays, Nicholas, Baxter, Kate, Goodwin, Nick, Malbon, Gill, King's Fund, and Scott, Judith

Publication date:

2000

Abstract:

The overall aim of the third year of the national evaluation of TPPs, spanning October 1997 to September 1998, was to identify the ingredients of successful devolved purchasing based in primary care by in-depth study of twelve first wave TPPs. The analysis presented here considers eleven of the case studies ...