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How Fair? Competition in the NHS
25 March 2010
…promoted competition for the provision of non-emergency hospital care to publicly-funded patients in England. In contrast to the health care competition introduced into the National Health Service under the Conservative…
Pricing in Emerging Markets: Income, Competition and Procurement
16 August 2011
…suppliers’, using a bidding process (‘tendering’) to stimulate price competition. Findings include that uneven income distribution within MLICs means that prices are comparatively high relative to PCI. In addition, competition…
Competition through Innovation, Innovation through Competition
1 November 1998
…strategy will ultimately threaten these companies’ long term competitiveness; 3. justly earned rents to the first entrant in a market are dissipated by the entry of many copies; excessive competition…
Critical Review of the Quality and Competition Measures and Identification Strategies Used in Health Care Studies
1 December 2011
Prepared as background for the OHE Commission on Competition, this paper provides an overview of the published literature detailing the links between quality and competition in health care systems. It…
Competition and Outcomes in the NHS: Hip Replacement
23 September 2014
…in the literature on competition, hospital market concentration is used as an indicator of competition, i.e. more hospitals providing care to residents of a geographic area can be expected to…
Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition, and Procurement
17 February 2015
…quality. Generic competition only weakly affects prices (an additional retail generic competitor reduces prices by <1%). These findings plausibly reflect generic quality uncertainty leading to competition on brand rather than…
Consolidation and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry
9 January 2001
…a conference entitled ‘Consolidation and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry’ which set out to debate these questions, drawing on the expertise of representatives from academia, industry, investors and government. This…
The Faces of Regulation: Profit and Price Regulation of the UK Pharmaceutical Industry after the 1998 Competition Act
1 May 2006
…a market on competition, sector specific regulation, and general competition law to deliver efficient outcomes. It was written prior to the OFT decision announced 30 September 2005 to carry out…
Competition and contestability between acute hospitals
1 March 1998
…health care in the UK. At the same time they emphasised for the first time in the context of the NHS the potential benefits to patients and taxpayers of competition…