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The government's doctrinal obsession with competition in the NHS is damaging care, holding back improvement and undermining integration. But ditching competition is not the solution.
Numerous studies on the impact of competition on the quality of healthcare (John Appleby of the King's Fund has written an excellent summary) broadly demonstrate that when used appropriately it can bring benefits, but it is by no means a universal tool for improvement.
There are powerful examples of its successful use. Under Labour, employing independent sector treatment centres to help clear the backlog of operations jolted many hospitals into finding improvements and efficiencies in the way they managed elective surgery.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthca...nhs-commissioning-outsourcing-competition-law
Numerous studies on the impact of competition on the quality of healthcare (John Appleby of the King's Fund has written an excellent summary) broadly demonstrate that when used appropriately it can bring benefits, but it is by no means a universal tool for improvement.
There are powerful examples of its successful use. Under Labour, employing independent sector treatment centres to help clear the backlog of operations jolted many hospitals into finding improvements and efficiencies in the way they managed elective surgery.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthca...nhs-commissioning-outsourcing-competition-law