Hospital X provides free healthcare to all members of the community, funded by the central Government.
Hospital Y provides healthcare which has to be paid for by the individual patients. It is a listed company, owned by a large number of shareholders.
In comparing the above two organisations and their objectives, which THREE of the following statements are correct?
- X is a not-for-profit organisation while Y is a for-profit organisation.
- X and Y have the same primary financial objective - to maximise shareholder wealth.
- The performance of X will be appraised primarily on the basis of value for money.
- Only Y is likely to have a mixture of financial and non-financial objectives.
- X and Y will have the same primary non financial objective - provision of quality of health care.
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