Finance and efficiency

Price competition fears over provider penalties

By and 2011-11-29T12:00:00

King's Fund chief economist on health policy John Appleby

New rules requiring NHS commissioners to penalise healthcare providers that “cherry pick” easier cases will be difficult to enforce and will encourage price competition, experts have warned.

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