Centre for Health Economics, University of York, 15 November 2017
- An analysis of the impact of relaxation of constraints on patient choice of hospital in 2006 found it had mixed effects on efficiency.
- An additional equivalent rival increased admissions per bed and the proportion of day cases by 1.1 and 3.8 percentage points, and reduced the proportion of untouched meals by 3.5 percentage points, but it also increased the number of cancelled elective operations by 2.6%. There are no statistically significant effects on the other five efficiency indicators (bed occupancy, cleaning services costs, laundry and linen costs, and RCI for all admissions and for elective admissions)
