Giving GPs budgets for commissioning: what needs to be done?
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The new Coalition Government has made clear its intention to ‘strengthen the power of GPs to act as patients’ expert guides through the health system’, by enabling them to commission care on their patients’ behalf (Cabinet Office, 2010). This briefing paper has been developed jointly by six national organisations who have been working together over a number of months to explore what needs to happen if GPs are to be given real power and responsibility for leading commissioning in the NHS. Giving GPs budgets for commissioning: what needs to be done?
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