title: The role of market testing in the NHS.
abstract: The myth of market testing is that it leads to low prices and correspondingly low quality services. If so, why have trust managers extended the initiative from the three services that are compulsory to market test, to well over 80 services? Could it be that it offers a practical and proven way to determine the best way of meeting service needs? Is it a process clinicians should fear, or is it one where clinicians have a useful and positive role to play?
authors.affiliation: NHS Executive Corporate Affairs Operational Policy Unit, Department of Health, London.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gleeson
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D004465:Economic Competition; D005376:Financial Management; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom