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Globalisation and Health Service Provision
The British Context
• Expansion of NHS Funding• More Private / International Providers• Primary Care Trusts / Care Trusts• Foundation Hospitals / Franchises• Private Finance Initiative
• = ‘Non-Commercial Basis’ ?
World Trade Organisation
• TRIPS
• GATS
• - Most Favoured Nation
• - National Treatment
Modes of Supply
• Cross Border Trade (e.g. ‘Tele-health’)
• Consumption Abroad
• Commercial Presence
• Presence of Natural Persons
Article 1.3
• Government services are exempt where they are:
‘supplied neither on a commercial basis, nor in competition with one or more service suppliers’.
Summary
• Services are Internationalising
• Governments are Privatising
• GATS Facilitates Both
• Watch the Doha Round Carefully!
International Organisations
• WHO / GPPPs
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• World Bank
• World Trade Organisation (WTO) / GATT
A Typology of Healthcare Companies
• Providers of Services
• Producers of Goods
• Suppliers of Services
• Health Insurers
• Premises Companies
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