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Friday 11 September, Parallel session D
Health service research and evidence based practice
Independent sector treatment centres: learning from a Scottish case study
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  1. A. M. Pollock,
  2. G. Kirkwood
  1. Centre for International Public Health Policy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.096727z

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      The English Independent Sector Treatment Centre (ISTC) programme uses the private health care industry to provide elective surgery and other clinical services at a projected total cost of £5 billion. To date the government has contracted for £2.7 billion worth of services but the programme remains unevaluated because of a lack of published contract data and poor quality data returns. Scotland has a three year pilot ISTC, the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre (SRTC) worth £18.7 million the …

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