title: Setting up an acupuncture knee clinic under Practice Based Commissioning.
abstract: This paper outlines the setting up of a new service in primary care offering acupuncture to patients with severe osteoarthritis of the knee. The high volume clinic is funded under the Practice Based Commissioning initiative and is the first of its type in the UK. It appears to offer a model for similar services elsewhere.
authors.affiliation: Parkbury House Surgery, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Freedman
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richardson
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000628:therapy*; D018710:Pain Clinics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom