1. Quasi-Markets and Social Policy
2. Quasi-Markets and Social Policy
3. Why Britain Is Reorganizing Its National Health Service—Yet Again
4. So, for instance, if the fundholder were to purchase elective surgery, the budget was determined by the estimated cost of all of the elective referrals made by the practice in the year before it started fundholding. This gave practices an incentive to increase their referrals in that year, an incentive to which they responded
; see
B. Croxson
,
C. Propper
, and
A. Perkins
, “
Do Doctors Respond to Financial Incentives? UK Family Doctors and the GP Fund-holder Scheme
” (Unpublished paper,
University of Bristol
,
1998
).