Enhancing effective and acceptable purchaser and provider decisions: overview and methods.

provision, placing contracts, and monitoring the provision of contracted services and their impact on the health of the population. To help this process the public health division of the Department of Health commissioned a series of bulletins on effectiveness to synthesis available evidence on chosen health care interventions. The project is based within the school of public health at the University of Leeds and is undertaken in collaboration with the Oncology Information Service (OIS) at the University of Leeds, the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, and the Research Unit of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London.