Strategic Purchasing in Practice: Comparing Ten European Countries

Over the past few decades, policymakers across high and middle income countries have grown interested in the role that strategic purchasing could theoretically have in optimizing the cost-effective provision of healthcare services while simultaneously maximizing population health [1]. Purchasing is the process of allocating pooled funds to health care providers, whether within a NHS system with a purchaser-provider split (i.e. England), through contracts with insurance funds as in social insurance (i.e.

Source: Health Policy - February 5, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Katarzyna Klasa, Scott L. Greer, Ewout van Ginneken Source Type: research