Primary care groups. The cultivated commissioner.
The government's proposals for primary care groups assume GPs will be able to direct commissioning organisations more successfully than their fundholder predecessors. Under the previous system, practices incapable of managing a budget and purchasing health services were, in effect, ruled out of fundholding. Guidelines are needed specifying the skills and expertise required for membership of PCGs.
Baines
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Birmingham University.
Couper
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