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The DoH named 52 pathfinder GP consortia in December, covering a quarter of the population...result, the largest GP consortium, covering more than 600,000 patients, is almost 36 times larger than the smallest. GP spoke to both ends of the spectrum to ask whether size was important. View Map of GP pathfinder consortia in a full screen map England's smallest consortium Dr Mike Ingram, a ...
Last month, the first wave of GP consortia to take the lead in commissioning were announced. The government has selected 52 groups of practices to be the first in the GP pathfinder consortia programme ... and Excellence. They will test concepts for GP commissioning, explore how emerging consortia can best set up ...
Although GP commissioning consortia will be unable to provide healthcare services, the White Paper ... . GPs will retain the freedom to choose the legal structure best suited for their federation ... and limited liability partnerships. Understand options My aim is to help GPs understand the main ...
Tom Ireland sifts through DoH reports to offer a guide to what we know about GP consortia....guide to everything we know about GP consortia so far, following the publication of the 2011/12 NHS ... GP consortia will be free to merge, expand or change location. Not all practices in a consortium have ... and share back-office functions. Joining a consortium Legislation will ensure GP practices cannot ...
that for GP practices this will make for happier working relationships than many have experienced in trying ... GPs are thinking about which practices they would like to join forces with to commission healthcare ... in California (a similar model to our proposed GP commissioning groups) suggest that commissioning consortia can ...
NHS commissioning authorities are not what GP consortia leads signed up for, says Paul Corrigan....on for support are the GP leaders of pathfinder commissioning consortia. At times, Andrew Lansley has made the political mistake of over-claiming for this group. He is not right, for example, to say that the GPs working ... of energy for change will come from these GP pathfinder leaders. And it is this group of enthusiasts ...
Darren Clare sees a future of transparent relationships between the drug companies and GP...Working with pharmaceutical companies is divisive within general practice, with some GPs seeing ... towards GP consortia, a radical change was required - not only in how pharmaceutical companies act ... of branded materials. The practice of companies providing GPs and other healthcare providers with branded ...
The Health Bill paves the way for GP consortia to run primary care contracts, legal experts have...Lynne Abbess, partner at Hempsons solicitors, said a clause allowing the NHS Commissioning Board to 'discharge' any of its functions to consortia meant the groups could run GP or even dental contracts. After the publication of the White Paper, opinion was split over whether consortia should manage GP ...
What GP provider organisations for CCGs need to know about NHS pensions, by Polly Ellison....Under the proposed NHS reforms, individual or grouped GP practices (known as GP provider organisations, or GPPOs) can provide services to clinical commissioning groups, where this makes for best value ... and out-of-hours providers. A GPPO must also be set up in a specific legal form. Broadly, groups of GP ...
NICE is planning to forge new links with GP consortia, its chief executive Sir Andrew Dillon tells...GP consortia will not be on their own when they assume control of rationing decisions currently taken by NICE, the institute's chief executive says. In an exclusive interview with GP, Sir Andrew ... , not politics, will inform the outcomes framework that will judge GP commissioners' success ...
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