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Author:: Leese, Brenda, Goodwin, Nick, Wyke, Sally, King's Fund, Mahon, Ann, Malbon, Gill, and Mays, Nicholas
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This working paper is the first report from the national evaluation of total purchasing pilot projects to provide evidence on the achievements of all 53 'first wave' pilots in England and Scotland. It also looks at the range of factors associated with more and less successful total purchasing in 1996-97 ...

Author:: Leese, Brenda, King's Fund, Mahon, Ann, Baxter, Kate, and Stoddart, Helen
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: Innovations introduced into the NHS such as total purchasing (TP) have raised issues about information requirements and information technology. Information and information systems for TP are inadequate, with major problems being centred on a lack of guidance on specific systems for TPPs and an absence of software standardisation. Poor activity ...

Author:: Mahon, Ann, Goodwin, Nick, King's Fund, Scott, Judith, Baxter, Kate, and Leese, Brenda
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: There have not been any set criteria against which to assess the merits of the various ways in which total purchasing has developed nationally. An important part of the evaluation of total purchasing in the first year was, therefore, an attempt to derive success criteria which would enable comparison between ...

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