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The purchasing of health care by primary care organizations : an evaluation and guide to future policy
- Title
- The purchasing of health care by primary care organizations : an evaluation and guide to future policy / edited by Nicholas Mays [and others].
- Publication
- Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, ©2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mays, Nicholas.
- Description
- xxi, 320 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This book draws on an extensive government-funded evaluation of the UK primary care led total purchasing experiment to shed light on important questions raised by these policies. In particular, it attempts to answer these questions: Can general practitioner led primary care organizations successfully use an ability to purchase health services to achieve either more efficient or better health care for their patients? What are the ingredients of more or less successful primary care purchasing organizations? What lessons can be drawn from the experience of such a large and complex evaluation?"--Jacket
- Series Statement
- State of health series
- Uniform Title
- State of health series
- Subject
- Medical economics > Great Britain
- Social medicine > Great Britain
- Medicine > Great Britain
- Medical policy
- Medical policy
- Medical economics
- Medicine
- Social medicine
- Primary Health Care > economics
- Contract Services > economics
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Group Purchasing > economics
- Health Policy
- State Medicine > organization & administration
- Great Britain
- United Kingdom
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-307) and index.
- Contents
- Health service development -- what can be learnt from the United Kingdom total purchasing experiment? -- Designing the evaluation of the total purchasing experiment -- problems and solutions -- Developing primary care organizations -- What did TPPs achieve? -- How was change achieved? -- Purchasing maternity care, mental health services and community care for older people -- Managing emergency hospital activity -- The management and transactions costs of total purchasing -- Budget setting and its influence on the achievements of TPPs -- Managing budgets and risk -- Holding total purchasing pilot projects to account -- Evaluating complex policies -- what have we learnt from total purchasing? -- The total purchasing experiment -- interpreting the findings -- The total purchasing experiment -- a guide to future policy development?
- ISBN
- 0335209017
- 9780335209019
- 0335209009
- 9780335209002
- LCCN
- 00068923
- OCLC
- ocm47797613
- 47797613
- SCSB-1238430
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library