... diagnoses. There were three disease pairs presented to respondents as shown in Table III . Health care Managers Pharmaceuticals Resource management National Health Service United Kingdom This paper sets out to compare the perceptions of health managers with the behavioural realities of GP...

...Michael J. Hatton; Brian P. Mathews Working for Patients (1989), implemented in 1991, introduced into the National Health Service (NHS) the purchaser‐provider split, which created an “internal market” for health care. The key feature of this internal market was the concept of buying...

... care Quality National Health Service Recent reforms in health care provision in the UK ‐ notably the introduction of the concept of the internal market, GP fundholding and the patients’ charter (PC) have led to a renewed debate on quality in health care. This article focuses on research...

...Peter W. Turnbull; Noreen E. Parsons Addresses the issue of the adoption of generic drugs by general medical practitioners in the National Health Service in England. The adoption and buyer behaviour of GPs is of central importance to the pharmaceutical industry and to the Government. Reports...