... the purchasing arms of the National Health Service. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Health care Purchasing Quality Skills Health Authorities (HA) are deemed responsible for identifying the health needs of the community and purchasing healthcare services from hospitals and clinics who...

... recession has forced hospitals to re‐evaluate their purchasing criteria. Investigates the process with the help of industrial marketing theories to determine the strategic means which can be used to create competitive advantages. The new automatic data‐processing (ADP)‐based high technology in the hearing...

... into the quality assurance net, the striking differences between the factors cited as constraining or facilitating the development of quality assurance, and the abysmal lack of data on cost or resources or to any systematic monitoring and evaluation. Suggests that the purchaser‐provider split may have worsened...