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_aDAWSON, Diane; JACOBS, Rowena _923161 |
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245 | 1 | 0 | _aDo We Have a Redundant Set of CostEfficiency Targets in the NHS? |
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_aOxford : _bBlackwell Publishing, _cJanuary 2003 |
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520 | 3 | _aThere has been a long history of hospital trust costefficiency targets being used in the National Health Service (NHS), but there is little evidence about whether they are effective in reducing hospital unit costs and reducing the dispersion of unit costs between trusts. In 1997, the new Labour government announced that it would replace the purchaser efficiency index with a new approach to securing costefficiency gains from trusts. Since 1999/2000 trust efficiency targets have been based on reference costs. This article presents evidence to suggest that efficiency targets have not been effective and that the new reference cost based system of targets is irrelevant. The efficiency gains that trusts seek to achieve are those that emerge from the purchaser funding formula and the contracting process | |
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_tPublic Money & Management _g23, 1, p. 67-71 _dOxford : Blackwell Publishing, January 2003 _xISSN 0954-0962 _w |
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