COMPETITION PROBE
Inquiry's report on health-care market delayed again
The original deadline for the release of the Competition Commission’s final report was November 2015, but it has been repeatedly delayed
The Competition Commission’s long-running health market inquiry has announced yet another delay in the release of its final report, saying it wants to give stakeholders more time to comment on its provisional findings published in July. The deadline for the publication of its long-awaited report has been pushed out by two months, to November 30. The inquiry began in January 2014 and set out to investigate the barriers to effective competition in the private health-care market and why annual health-care inflation consistently outstrips consumer price inflation by several percentage points. The original deadline for the release of its final report was November 2015, but it has been repeatedly delayed — partly due to legal challenges, but also because it has been at pains to show it is taking heed of concerns raised by stakeholders at every step of the way. "Following the publication of the inquiry’s provisional report, the inquiry received several requests for extensions for submissio...
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