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Healthcare: how competition can improve management quality and save lives

Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen

November 2015

Paper No' CEPCP454:

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NHS hospitals in England are rarely closed in constituencies where the governing party has a slender majority. This means that for near random reasons, those parts of the country have more competition in healthcare - which has allowed Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen to assess its impact on management quality and clinical performance.



Further reading: earlier version available as CEP Discussion Paper No. 983

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals,Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen, Review of Economic Studies 82, January 2015 NHS hospitals in England are rarely closed in constituencies where the governing party has a slender majority. This means that for near random reasons, those parts of the country have more competition in healthcare - which has allowed Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen to assess its impact on management quality and clinical performance.This paper has been published as: