title: DTC commissioning. An arranged marriage.
abstract: The first privately run diagnostic and treatment centre required nine months of complex talks between the strategic health authority, the trust and Bupa. The contract cost more than if it had been run by the trust, but it increased access and transferred risk. One lesson was that staff should have been better acclimatised to the idea.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mooney
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics*; D003954:Diagnostic Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D011332:Privatization; D012040:Regional Health Planning; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013531:Surgicenters / Q000458:organization & administration*