title: Purchasing effective care for parents and young children.
abstract: The extension of GP fundholding and the focus on the primary health care team means that GPs have become major players in the purchasing of child and family community nursing services. Shirley Goodwin explores what effective purchasing by GP fundholders of health visiting services might entail and the principles which should inform their decisions.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goodwin
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005194:Family Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012935:Social Justice