TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ovretveit, J
TI  - Purchasing for health:  a multidisciplinary introduction to the theory and practice of health purchasing
SN  - 0335193323
PY  - 1995///
PB  - Open UP
KW  - Purchasing
KW  - Health services
N1  - Health Services Management Series; 1 - Purchasing for health; 2 - Purchasing and "market reform"; 3 - Health commissioning: purpose and work; 4 - "Decentralized" or "locality" purchasing; 5 - Justifiable purchasing: rationing, priorities, effectiveness and outcome; 6 - Contracting and contracts; 7 - Quality in purchasing; 8 - Collaboration with local authorities; 9 - Developing primary and community health services; 10 - Purchasing primary health care and the role of the FHSA; 11 - Integrating primary and secondary health purchasing; 12 - Purchasing agency organisation; 13 - The future for health purchasing: financing, competition and values; APPENDIX 2 - Management structures of seven integrated health purchasers; APPENDIX 3 - Profiles of seven UK integrated health purchasing organisations; APPENDIX 4 - Summary of a  pproaches to locality pu rchasing; APPENDIX 5 - Checklist for evaluating integration of primary and secondary commissioning
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