Longo, Francesco orcid.org/0000-0002-1833-7328, Siciliani, Luigi orcid.org/0000-0003-1739-7289, Moscelli, Giuseppe et al. (1 more author) (2019) Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? The Effect of the Patient Choice Reform in England. Health Economics. ISSN 1057-9230
Abstract
We use the 2006 relaxation of constraints on patient choice of hospital in the English NHS to investigate the effect of hospital competition on dimensions of efficiency including indicators of resource management (admissions per bed, bed occupancy rate, proportion of day cases, and cancelled elective operations) and costs (reference cost index for overall and elective activity, cleaning services costs, laundry and linen costs). We employ a quasi differences-in-differences approach and estimate seemingly unrelated regressions and unconditional quantile regressions with data on hospital trusts from 2002/03 to 2010/11. Our findings suggest that increased competition had mixed effects on efficiency. An additional equivalent rival increased admissions per bed by 1.1%, admissions per doctor by 0.9% and the proportion of day cases by 0.38 percentage points, but it also increased the number of cancelled elective operations by 2.5%.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Competition,Efficiency,Choice,Hospital,Differences-in-differences |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Centre for Health Economics (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2019 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:23 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3868 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/hec.3868 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141620 |
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