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National health service

NHS purchasing and the supply council

Keith Hartley Director of Institute of Social & Economic Research, University of York
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John Hutton Institute of Social & Economic Research, University of York
Pages 33-38 | Published online: 07 Jan 2009
 
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Throughout the public sector, attempts are being made to cut costs by improving the way that goods and services are purchased. In the case of the national health service, a Supply Council was set up in 1980 to assist health authorities to do just that. How effective has it been? And is it directed at the right target?

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