Patient Choice

In conjunction with the Department of Health, Volterra have developed an agent-based model in which agents operate according to behavioural rules. This enables us to explore how this new market allowing both patient choice and also promoting competition between hospitals may evolve.

 

The aim of the model is to inform policymakers of the impact of competition and choice on quality of care received by patients, length of waiting lists and the implications for incumbent providers of competition from private hospitals.