GPs hope for share of £1.4bn as managers under threat
Posted on November 19, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Foundation practice, PBC |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | 19 November 2009 GPs are hoping for a share of the £1.4bn running costs of strategic health authorities (SHAs) and PCTs if they are slimmed down. NHS chief executive David Nicholson signalled that the future of SHAs and PCTs was under review when he questioned their value at the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Labour backs real budgets to revitalise PBC
Posted on November 18, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: CHC, Foundation practice, PBC |
Healthcare Republic | By Neil Durham | 18 November 2009 An idea to revitalise practice-based commissioning (PBC) by allowing groups of practices to hold real budgets has been welcomed by England’s health minister Mike O’Brien. Speaking at the annual National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) conference in Birmingham on Tuesday Mr O’Brien broadly welcomed the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NAPC proposes radical plans for primary care
Posted on November 18, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Foundation practice |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 18 November 2009 GP leaders have unveiled a radical new model for primary care, with practices able to manage large chunks of the local healthcare budget and attain the status of ‘foundation practices’. The National Association of Primary Care has proposed GPs are given more freedom to design services and [...]
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