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'Outline the advantages and disadvantages of leaving healthcare provision predominantly to market forces, given the apparent difficulties of managing a national Health service'.  

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1.1 Terms of reference The following tasks have been tackled in this report, using newspaper articles, government websites, books and journals. Task a 'Outline the advantages and disadvantages of leaving healthcare provision predominantly to market forces, given the apparent difficulties of managing a national Health service and government's increasing inability to service the public's growing demands for the service'. Task b Discuss ways in which targets and indicators might be used to manage the NHS more effectively' Task c 'Critically appraises the managerial impact of Outcome Related Performance Indicators (ORPI's) and targets in a public sector context such as the Health service. 1.2 Introduction Healthcare in this country is run by the government and is called the National Health Service (NHS); the system has been in place since 1950 and provides free healthcare for all. Private healthcare is a new phenomenon in this country but is it welcome? Targets and indicators in the NHS are used to try and improve...

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