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- Title
Public Accountability and Sunshine Healthcare Regulation.
- Authors
Nunes, Rui; Brandão, Cristina; Rego, Guilhermina
- Abstract
The lack of economic sustainability of most healthcare systems and a higher demand for quality and safety has contributed to the development of regulation as a decisive factor for modernisation, innovation and competitiveness in the health sector. The aim of this paper is to determine the importance of the principle of public accountability in healthcare regulation, stressing the fact that sunshine regulation-as a direct and transparent control over health activities-is vital for an effective regulatory activity, for an appropriate supervision of the different agents, to avoid quality shading problems and for healthy competition in this sector. Methodologically, the authors depart from Kieran Walshe's regulatory theory that foresees healthcare regulation as an instrument of performance improvement and they articulate this theory with the different regulatory strategies. The authors conclude that sunshine regulation takes on a special relevance as, by promoting publicity of the performance indicators, it contributes directly and indirectly to an overall improvement of the healthcare services, namely in countries were citizens are more critical with regard to the overall performance of the system. Indeed, sunshine regulation contributes to the achievement of high levels of transparency, which are fundamental to overcoming some of the market failures that are inevitable in the transformation of a vertical and integrated public system into a decentralised network where entrepreneurialism appears to be the predominant culture.
- Subjects
CLINICAL medicine; DECISION making; MEDICAL care; RESPONSIBILITY; RULES; KEY performance indicators (Management)
- Publication
Health Care Analysis, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 4, p352
- ISSN
1065-3058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10728-010-0156-6