Background Activity-based funding (ABF) of hospitals is a policy intervention intended to re-
shape incentives across health systems through the use of diagnosis-related groups. Many …

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Prior to devolution in 1999, governance of schools and hospitals in England and Wales was
similar. After devolution, the funding and organization continued to be similar, but the two …

Objective Across healthcare systems, there is consensus on the need for independent and
impartial assessment of performance. There is less agreement about how measurement and …

This report examines the cost implications of the introduction of Universal Health Insurance
(UHI) in Ireland, as proposed in the Government White Paper: The Path to Universal …

The concept of patient flow modelling has attracted managers, commissioners and clinicians
to better understand the operational and clinical functions of the healthcare system. In this …

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 …

In the United Kingdom under the New Labour government from 1997 to 2010, there was a
shift of power away from local towards central government, leading to a situation in which …

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of
the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of …

In the 1990s, countries experimented with two models of health care reforms based on
choice of provider and insurer. The governments of the UK, Italy, Sweden and New Zealand …