In brief: Extra-contractual referrals
Despite the government's promise to crack down on extra-contractual referrals, numbers of out-of-area treatments in the first two years of the Labour government have been as high as they were during the Conservatives' internal market. Of all hospital treatments in 1998, referrals out of health authority area accounted for 23 ...
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