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Patient choice

Author:

Picker Institute Europe, RAND Europe, Burge, Peter, Magee, Helen, Devlin, Nancy, Dixon, Anna, The King's Fund, Robertson, Ruth, Office of Health Economics, and Appleby, John

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 ...