Posts Tagged gp consortia
Moving the chairs… again
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 19/01/2011
Over the past few weeks Civitas staff have written many articles questioning the Government’s plans for the NHS, not on invigorating competition – which is needed, particularly with the productivity challenges the NHS faces – but on commissioning: on abolishing all PCTs, the current commissioning bodies in the NHS, by 2013, replacing them with ‘consortia’ of GPs.
Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 22/12/2010
Trawling through the 167 pages of the Coalition Government’s response to the consultation on the NHS White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, one cannot help but agree with Phil Collins’ recent comment piece in The Times… just why is the Secretary of State making NHS reform so hard for himself?
The NHS: going Dutch?
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 16/08/2010
Good article in the FT today by Nick Timmins on possible future direction of NHS… competing health insurers (or GP consortia) along the lines of the acclaimed Dutch health system. For a bit more flesh on the bones as to how such a transformation could be achieved have a read of this book and article published by Civitas 3 years ago. This article by Gwyn Bevan of the LSE is also worth a scan.