"Our results suggest that competition between public providers prompted public hospitals to improve their productivity by decreasing their pre-surgery, overall and post-surgery length of stay."
Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service
Z Cooper, S Gibbons, S Jones, A McGuire
Centre for Economic Performance
February 2012
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QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) aims to help NHS organisations deliver higher quality care and operate more efficiently and effectively. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has set up a programme to implement QIPP across the trust. This blog, delivered by the RFH Medical Library, will highlight latest papers about QIPP to support the Trust as they carry out this work.
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