title: Practice-based commissioning. Ready or not?
abstract: As the practice-based commissioning revolution gets underway this month, our survey of primary care trusts and practices finds that two-thirds of PCT chief executives feel practices are not yet ready to deal with the new system. Meanwhile, half of practices are intending to manage commissioning budgets this year, with 98 per cent intending to be involved by 2008
authors.affiliation: alexis.nolan@emap.com
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nolan
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002017:Budgets; D003284:Contract Services; D003625:Data Collection; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom