Primary care trusts: the way forward?

Charitable trusts and human research genetic databases: the way forward?*

Human genetic research databases cast a new light on the controversial issue of which uses of the human body are morally permissible. More specifically, banking human tissue raises issues relating to the ownership of the samples that the participants have donated, to the ownership of the data that are derived through processing the donated samples, and to the management arrangements that better...

Electronic medical records: the way forward for primary care research?

Multiprofessional working, interprofessional learning and primary care: a way forward?

Across all sectors of health and social care there is a growing need for collaboration between professionals, agencies, providers and above all with the people they seek to serve. The significant challenge is how to create, within the existing and future workforce, the capability to work in multi professional teams capable of effective collaboration. The intention of this paper is to explore th...

Will primary care trusts lead to US-style health care?

service Email alerting the top right corner of the article Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article-sign up in the box at

The Commissioning Function of Primary Care Groups and Trusts

discussed by looking at the development of commissioning (or purchasing) in the internal market. In the following section PCG/Ts main institutional features will be described and the progress they have made in commissioning will be discussed. An international comparison with American Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) will be developed before a brief concluding discussion of the central is...