Pricing in the NHS.
Since the introduction of the NHS internal market, it has been necessary to price health care for contracts and extra contractual referrals. Internal markets, like conventional markets, operate via a pricing mechanism. This article describes the NHS pricing principles and the development of NHS pricing for acute hospital services in the first 5 years of the market.
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Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.
D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs; D017721:Hospital Costs; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom