The clash between the desire to improve services and the need to confront straitened financial circumstances is a central policy problem – perhaps the central problem – for the UK’s Coalition Government. This report, by Professor Alan Garber of Harvard University (and the current Nuffield Trust Rock Carling Fellow), looks at how best the UK can balance competition, integration and incentives in the quest for efficiency in its National Health Service.
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