Posts Tagged gp commissioning
A dog’s breakfast or radical reform?
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 13/07/2010
Yesterday, Civitas released a brief commentary on the NHS White Paper published by the Coalition government. I’m happy to repeat congratulations to the Coalition government on moves to introduce greater competition in the NHS by expanding choice and supporting a genuine ’social market’ through the introduction of meaningful competition law.
Recent evidence on the impact of the competition that already exists in the NHS suggests this is the right course of action to drive value in tight financial times.
However, I want to devote the time and space of this blog to analysis of the more fundamental proposals on the purchasing side of things. That is, moves to transfer responsibility for commissioning from PCTs to GPs. A number of concerns:
