Posts Tagged practice-based commissioning
Reviving the ‘corpse’ of PbC
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 26/11/2009
‘A corpse not for resuscitation’ the primary care czar, David Colin-Thome recently said of practice-based commissioning recently in an apparent lapse of concentration, protocol (or is it actually becoming DH policy)? Roll on a month and we have the latest report attempting to provide the holy grail. Read the rest of this entry »
Is the DH giving up on practice-based commissioning?
Posted by Laura Brereton in Health on 15/10/2009
While the Conservatives are announcing plans to restructure PbC, the current government seems to be rethinking the future of the process as well. Read the rest of this entry »
The Conservatives and Practice-based Commissioning
Posted by Laura Brereton in Health on 08/10/2009
To anyone familiar with NHS policy of the 1990s, Conservative plans to reform PbC sound a lot like GP fundholding. Read the rest of this entry »
How about a bonfire on the inconsistencies?
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 20/07/2009
Here’s a good question: where are the Tories going on health policy? Do they even know? It doesn’t seem so. First, the macro stuff. Is health spending to increase in real terms as pledged, or has – as today’s response to the King’s Fund and IFS’s projections for the NHS tends to suggest – reality finally struck? Is NHS pay to ‘not depend on how much money the government has’, or is there to be an acknowledgement that the NHS cannot be immune to the effects of the dire fiscal situation? Read the rest of this entry »