Total purchasing offers fundholding practices the opportunity to purchase all of the health care not included in fundholding for the patients on their lists. This report provides the first comprehensive picture of how the idea of total purchasing is being implemented in all 53 'first wave' national total purchasing pilot ...
The book describes the work of six King's Fund projects where the views of local Black communities were used to influence a range of service developments through changes in commissioning, quality standards and contracts. By bringing together the local lessons within a broad framework, the report maps the progress of ...
At the beginning of 1995 King's Fund Organisational Audit set up a project to develop organisational audit for health service commissioning. Six health authorities and five primary care organisations agreed to become pilots for the newly developed process. This report presents the results of the evaluation process, including the findings ...