Background Benchmarking has been recognised as a valuable method to help identify
strengths and weaknesses at all levels of the healthcare system. Despite a growing interest …

How can individuals best be encouraged to take more responsibility for their well-being and
their environment or to behave more ethically in their business transactions? Across the …

This report is the fourth study in a series comparing the funding and performance of the
publicly financed systems of health care in the four countries of the UK. The first, by Dixon …

The Italian Health care System provides universal coverage for comprehensive health
services and is mainly financed through general taxation. Since the early 1990s, a strong …

This paper explores what motivates improved health care performance. Previously, many
have thought that performance would either improve via choice and competition or by …

Background Public reporting of surgeon outcomes has become a key strategy in the English
NHS to ensure accountability and improve the quality of care. Much of the evidence that …

Governments have struggled with addressing problems that cross agency boundaries. Since
2012, the New Zealand Government has achieved significant success by holding groups of …

Collaborative governance, despite being a fraught endeavour, is sometimes the only option
for addressing cross-agency problems. From 2012 to 2017, the New Zealand government's …

The visualization of ranking information in global public policy is moving away from
traditional “league table” formats and toward dashboards and interactive data displays. This …

What motivates human behaviour? Drawing on literatures from anthropology to zoology,
Oliver examines how we are motivated to give and take, rather than give or take. This book …