Organising health care

Three pieces on how health care is organised. Whether regions help: the UK’s single-payer system has tried hierarchy, competition and regions in turn, and offers evidence for countries such as Canada weighing up regionalisation. Whether evidence-based medicine can be applied in primary care as its advocates intend, or whether rigour collides with reality. And, for the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, why capital spending in health care is a missed opportunity for improvement.