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The purchaser/provider split in social care — is it working?
Author(s)	Jane Lewis, Penny Bernstock, Virginia Bovell, Fiona Wookey
Journal title	Social Policy and Administration, vol 30, no 1, March 1996
Pages	pp 1-19
Keywords	Services ; Community care ; Domiciliary services ; Social policy.
Annotation	Drawing on fieldwork in five local authorities, this paper examines the benefits of the purchaser/provider split; whether purchasers are better at identifying needs than providers; whether there is evidence of competition involving multiple providers and suppliers, and whether there has been an increase in responsiveness, using domiciliary care as an example.
Accession Number	CPA-960311011 A
Classmark	I: PA: N: TM2
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