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Title
Private sector treatment centres are treating less complex patients than the NHS.
Authors
Mason, Anne; Street, Andrew; Verzulli, Rossella
Abstract
In England, patients can choose to have their NHS elective care delivered by private (or 'independent sector') providers or by the NHS. Providers are paid a fixed tariff for each type of procedure. Our objectives were to compare NHS providers with private treatment centres in terms of (a) the quality of data coding and (b) patient complexity.
Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2010, Vol 103, Issue 8, p322