title: Outcome-based commissioning: has its time come?
authors.affiliation: Vice Chair External Affairs, Royal College of General Practitioners, London.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ballard
authors.affiliation: Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.affiliation: National Clinical Lead Centre for Commissioning, Royal College of General Practitioners, London.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paynton
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D058006:General Practice / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom