For example, Miller 2000 investigated public and private worldwide credit data and concluded that public credit registries were not a substitute for private sector registries but a complement.
The empirical analysis used data retrieved from the South African Medicine Price Registry on private sectors prices for originator and generic medicines as at 20 December 2013.
This, the paper says in commendably blunt language, is because it "would not meet the government's objectives of transferring the Land Registry into the private sector".
The assessments of provider perspectives documented in the published literature [ 4- 7] reflect only single states or urban areas; lacking is a perspective on provider participation across a wider sector of registry participants and non-participants, which may provide some valuable "lessons learned" for those seeking to improve provider participation rates.
"Any privileged access to Asic registry data by a private sector owner and/or operator – be it timing, access, or price – would be highly detrimental to competition, innovation, economic outcomes and commercial decision-making," the letter said.
Population-based registries have been promoted as an effective method to improve childhood immunization rates, yet rates of registry participation in the private sector are low.
The percentage (50.3%) is higher than in the Canadian survey but no real comparison can be made because that registry does not specify industry sectors and occupational categories.
Enhancing hardware and software resources, education and motivation in all public and private sectors involved in the cancer registry program, and greater attention to epidemiological research are needed to increase the quality of the cancer registry program, including its completeness.
In the case of resource-rich countries, establishing sector-specific registries may be the right place to start.
Lamentably, the government has aspirations to privatise the Land Registry, transforming it into a frighteningly Orwellian "private-sector delivery body" known as NewCo.
