Delivering patient choice in English acute hospital trusts

Accounting Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-376

  Dent, Mike ^a   Haslam, Colin ^b  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute hospitals; NHS reform; Patient choice; Public management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750369295     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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