The pre‐conceived idea that contracts in a public–private partnership (PPP) regime, in
healthcare or in any other economic sector, are, as a rule, ruinous and appealing for only a …

Objectives To understand the rationale, implementation and early impact of vertical
integration between primary care medical practices and the organisations running acute …

Policy mobilities scholarship has comprehensively challenged the methodological
nationalism and rational orthodoxies of policy studies. Contributing to recent debates on …

Worldwide, access to universal healthcare (UHC) is being gradually recognised as a
fundamental right. That this has to be provided in most developing countries, in a milieu of …

Background Vertical integration refers to merging organisations that operate at different
stages along the patient pathway. An organisation running an acute hospital and also …

Background Different forms of public/private mix have become a central mode of the
privatization of healthcare, in both financing and provision. The present article compares the …

Purpose This study aims to explore the reasons behind the lengthy delays in completing a
single public-private partnership (PPP) project in Indonesia and investigates how the …

Introduction The sustainability of public hospital financing in Spain is a recurring issue, given
its representativeness in annual public healthcare budgets which must adapt to the …

BACKGROUND: Vertical integration means merging organisations that operate at different
stages along the patient pathway. We focus on acute hospitals running primary care medical …

The current healthcare system in Hong Kong is experiencing pressure due to constrained
resources, with dramatic increases in inpatient services queue lengths, dissatisfaction with …