concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: purchaser-provider split

public-sector management
type: Concept
narrower: purchaser-provider split

purchaser-provider split
type: Concept
broader: public-sector management
definition: An initiative to make health services more accountable for their expenditures by separating the functions of supplying and paying for services, so that for example a hospital has internal markets when different sections deal with each other (new public management). [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Purchaser-Provider Split]