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Developing primary care in the new NHS : lessons from total purchasing

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 ...
Contracting by total purchasing pilot projects 1996-97

Author:

Robinson, Ray, Robison, Judy, Raftery, James, and King's Fund

Publication date:

1998

Abstract:

While most GP practices participating in total purchasing have some experience of contracting with health care providers, the extension of their responsibilities has, in many cases, taken them into entirely new areas and posed a set of challenges for primary care-based purchasing. This paper concentrates on a central element of ...
Contracting by total purchasing pilot projects 1997-98

Author:

Raftery, James, King's Fund, Robison, Judy, McLeod, Hugh, and Robinson, Ray

Publication date:

1998

Abstract:

In a previous working paper the results of a survey of the contracting arrangements of the 53 first wave total purchasing pilot (TPP) projects during 1996-97 were given. This working paper reports the results of a follow-up survey carried out for the 1997-98 contracting round. The survey was designed to ...