Vecchi, Veronica; Hellowell, Mark; Longo, Francesco - In: Public Money & Management 30 (2010) 2, pp. 125-132
Italy's health service—the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN)—has developed Europe's second largest market for healthcare public--private partnerships. This article describes the origins of private finance for SSN infrastructure, examines the programme's scale and key characteristics, and...