The Purchasing of Health Care by Primary Care Organizations

by Mays, Nicholas Mays (Editor), Sally Wyke (Editor)

Overview

Governments in a number of Western countries are attempting to improve the efficiency, appropriateness and equity of their health systems. One of the main ways of doing this is to devolve purchasing responsibility from national and regional to more local agencies based in primary care. These primary care organizations are allocated budgets that span both primary and secondary services.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335209002
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	01/10/2001
Series:	State of Health Series
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface - Notes on Contributors - List of Tables, Figures and Boxes - 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 organisations - 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? - References - Index.