Gibbons, Stephen (2012) Is NHS competition good for patients?: it depends on who's competing. Spatial Economics Research Centre (23 Feb 2012) Blog Entry.
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Last year, my research with Zack Cooper on hospital competition generated a lot of interest. In that work we found that reforms in 2006, which allowed patients to choose between NHS hospitals for routine surgery, had knock-on effects on outcomes in emergency care – lower heart attack mortality rates specifically. A lot of people – those with distaste for the very idea of competition in public services – did not like this finding at all and the arguments ran for some time in the medical press.
| Item Type: | Website (Blog Entry) |
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| Official URL: | http://spatial-economics.blogspot.co.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Sets: | Departments > Geography and Environment Research centres and groups > Spatial Economics Research Centre Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Aug 2012 10:45 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45238/ |
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