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social science subjects > politics and international relations > governance > public-sector management > purchaser-provider split
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purchaser-provider split  

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  • 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]

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