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Does competition between hospitals improve clinical quality?: a review of evidence from two eras of competition in the English NHS

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  • Bevan, Gwyn
  • Skellern, Matthew

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Gwyn Bevan and Matthew Skellern review evidence on the effects of hospital competition on quality of care within the English NHS and question whether they support government proposals to extend competition.

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  • Bevan, Gwyn & Skellern, Matthew, 2011. "Does competition between hospitals improve clinical quality?: a review of evidence from two eras of competition in the English NHS," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 40065, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. Giuseppe Moscelli & Hugh Gravelle & Luigi Siciliani, 2016. "Market structure, patient choice and hospital quality for elective patients," Working Papers 139cherp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
    2. Bevan, Gwyn & Evans, Alice & Nuti, Sabina, 2018. "Reputations count: why benchmarking performance is improving health care across the world," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 86469, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Anne-Fleur Roos & Eddy van Doorslaer & Owen O'Donnell & Erik Schut & Marco Varkevisser, 2018. "Does price competition damage healthcare quality?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 18-040/V, Tinbergen Institute.
    4. Moscelli, Giuseppe & Gravelle, Hugh & Siciliani, Luigi & Santos, Rita, 2018. "Heterogeneous effects of patient choice and hospital competition on mortality," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 216(C), pages 50-58.
    5. Cooper, Zack & Gibbons, Stephen & Skellern, Matthew, 2018. "Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals' performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 63-80.
    6. Polina Obolenskaya & Polly Vizard, 2013. "Labour's Record on Health (1997-2010)," CASE - Social Policy in a Cold Climate Working Paper 02, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
    7. Carrie Colla & Julie Bynum & Andrea Austin & Jonathan Skinner, 2016. "Hospital Competition, Quality, and Expenditures in the U.S. Medicare Population," NBER Working Papers 22826, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Kristian Niemietz, 2015. "Internal Markets, Management by Targets, and Quasi-Markets: An Analysis of Health Care Reforms in the English NHS," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 93-108, February.
    9. Hugh Gravelle & Giuseppe Moscelli & Rita Santos & Luigi Siciliani, 2014. "Patient choice and the effects of hospital market structure on mortality for AMI, hip fracture and stroke patients," Working Papers 106cherp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
    10. Hugh Gravelle & Rita Santos & Luigi Siciliani & Rosalind Goudie, 2012. "Hospital Quality Competition Under Fixed Prices," Working Papers 080cherp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
    11. Juan Esteban Carranza & Álvaro J. Riascos & Natalia Serna, 2015. "Poder de mercado, contratos y resultados de salud en el sistema de salud colombiano entre 2009 y 2011," Borradores de Economia 918, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    12. Roos, Anne-Fleur & O’Donnell, Owen & Schut, Frederik T. & Van Doorslaer, Eddy & Van Gestel, Raf & Varkevisser, Marco, 2020. "Does price deregulation in a competitive hospital market damage quality?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    13. Park, Sungchul & Lee, Jason & Ikai, Hiroshi & Otsubo, Tetsuya & Imanaka, Yuichi, 2013. "Decentralization and centralization of healthcare resources: Investigating the associations of hospital competition and number of cardiologists per hospital with mortality and resource utilization in ," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 113(1), pages 100-109.
    14. Matthew Skellern, 2017. "The hospital as a multi-product firm: the effect of hospital competition on value-added indicators of clinical quality," CEP Discussion Papers dp1484, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    15. Currie, Graeme & Dingwall, Robert & Kitchener, Martin & Waring, Justin, 2012. "Let’s dance: Organization studies, medical sociology and health policy," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(3), pages 273-280.
    16. Tsiachristas, A. & Wallenburg, I. & Bond, C.M. & Elliot, R.F. & Busse, R. & van Exel, J. & Rutten-van Mölken, M.P. & de Bont, A., 2015. "Costs and effects of new professional roles: Evidence from a literature review," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 119(9), pages 1176-1187.
    17. Heijink, Richard & Mosca, Ilaria & Westert, Gert, 2013. "Effects of regulated competition on key outcomes of care: Cataract surgeries in the Netherlands," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 113(1), pages 142-150.

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    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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