The Purchaser/Provider Split in English Health Care

Towards Explicit Rationing

Bibliographic Data

ID6327744
AuthorsStephen Harrison (0000-0001-5951-3300, Senior Lecturer in Policy Studies, University of Leeds, Nuffield Institute for Health Services Studies), Gerald Wistow (0000-0001-9626-6855, Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care Management, University of Leeds, Nuffield Institute for Health Services Studies)
Year1992
Volume20
Issue2
Pages123-130
Publication date1992-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557392783054892
OpenAlexW1967274627
LanguageEN
Citations received11

An important feature of the post-Working for Patients National Health Service is the introduction of quasi-markets in health care, to be created by separating the ‘purchaser’ and ‘provider’ functions formerly conflated in the role of District Health Authorities. This paper presents data from a study of the first few months of operation of the new system, focusing upon the role of purchasing authorities in rationing health care and in legitimising their decisions about how to do this

Actuarial science · Business · Conflation · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Public economics · Purchasing · Rationing · Service (business · Service provider · Health Services Management and Policy · Marketing

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