... the purchasing arms of the National Health Service. Promotion of healthcare within the community is a key element of HA strategy, given the potential to reduce the large number of critical demands on facilities at emergency and/or in patient levels. This reduces demand on these costly services and releases...

... 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...