going to implement the Scheme, Mr. Sargent addressing the East India Association some months ago said, 'I am old enough in Government service to realise that almost anybody who is not mentally defective, and some of those who are, can produce a report of some kind. What matters, and what is even more difficult in India than elsewhere, is to translate the report into action. My experience in Ind...

Maternity Service, I found his article disappointing in the inadequacy and impractica-bility of his suggestions. The traditional relationship between doctor, patient and consultant has proved over a long period to be too valuable to all concerned to be lightly discarded. Competition between doctor and consultant for patients destroys this relationship utterly. Professor Lennon wants all patient...

The CareAuction intermediary offers a reverse auctioning platform to support the allocation of individual maternity care patient requests between purchasers of health insurance companies (acting on behalf of their policy holders) and care providers. Since its introduction in 2005, CareAuction has contributed to a small price drop of maternity care and induced competition on the supply-side of t...