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Author:: Robinson, Ray, Malbon, Gill, King's Fund, Bevan, Gwyn, Mays, Nicholas, Total Purchasing National Evaluation Team, Goodwin, Nick, Posnett, John, Raftery, James, McLeod, Hugh, Abbott, Stephen, Wyke, Sally, and Killoran, Amanda
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: Total purchasing was the first major 'internal market' policy initiative to be extensively evaluated by the Department of Health and Scottish Office. This report draws together the main evidence from the evaluation in order to inform the development of the new primary care organisations in the NHS, which came into ...

Author:: King's Fund, Page, Lesley, Macleod, Linda, Young, Gavin, Wyke, Sally, Piercy, James, Posnett, John, and Hewison, Jenny
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: Many of the potential pitfalls of increasing purchaser plurality in the NHS are relevant in planning and developing general practitioner led locality commissioning. However, this involvement in commissioning or purchasing maternity care may actually provide the 'bite' necessary to move reluctant provider trusts more quickly towards services which meet the ...

Author:: North Thames Office (NHS Executive, Department of Health, Great Britain), Killoran, Amanda, Posnett, John, Griffiths, Jenny, Goodwin, Nick, Mays, Nicholas, York Health Economics Consortium (University of York), Street, Andrew, King's Fund, Place, Michael, and Malbon, Gill
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: The purpose of this paper is to report initial results from studies of the management costs, associated with TPP and to explore the relevance of current experience for the costs of establishing the new Primary Care Groups (PCGs) outlined in the Labour government's white paper on the NHS. The methodology ...

Author:: Griffiths, Jenny, York Health Economics Consortium (University of York), Mays, Nicholas, King's Fund, Killoran, Amanda, Posnett, John, and West Surrey Health Authority
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This paper draws on the findings of three studies of the management costs of total purchasing (National Management Functions and Costs Study, and two studies undertaken as part of the National Evaluation of the Total Purchasing Pilots), to shed some light on the management costs of Primary care Groups (PCGs). ...

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