Research Catalog

Title

Purchasing for health : a multidisciplinary introduction to the theory and practice of health purchasing / John Øvretveit.

Author

Øvretveit, John, 1954-

Publication

Buckingham, U.K. ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

viii, 350 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Health services management

Uniform Title

Health services management.

Subjects

• United Kingdom
• Health Services > economics
• National health services > Great Britain > Administration
• Health products > Purchasing > Great Britain
• National Health Service (Great Britain)
• Financial Management > organization & administration
• State Medicine > economics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-338) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Duncan Nichol -- 1. Purchasing for health -- 2. Purchasing and 'market reform' -- 3. Health commissioning: purpose and work -- 4. 'Decentralized' or 'locality' purchasing -- 5. Justifiable purchasing: rationing, priorities, effectiveness and outcome -- 6. Contracting and contracts -- 7. Quality in purchasing -- 8. Collaboration with local authorities -- 9. Developing primary and community health services -- 10. Purchasing primary health care and the role of the FHSA -- 11. Integrating primary and secondary health purchasing -- 12. Purchasing agency organization -- 13. The future for health purchasing: financing, competition and values -- Appendix 2 Management structures of seven integrated health purchasers -- Appendix 3 Profiles of seven UK integrated health purchasing organizations -- Appendix 4 Summary of approaches to locality purchasing -- Appendix 5 Checklist for evaluating integration of primary and secondary commissioning.

ISBN

• 0335193331 (hb) :
• 0335193323 (pb) :

LCCN

94027592

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries