Total purchasing is potentially the most significant development in NHS purchasing of health services since the introduction of general practitioner fundholding in 1991. It offers fundholding practices the opportunity to purchase all of the health care not included in fundholding for patients on their lists. The study of 53 total ...
Total purchasing offers fundholding practices the opportunity to purchase all of the health care not included in fundholding for the patients on their lists. This report provides the first comprehensive picture of how the idea of total purchasing is being implemented in all 53 'first wave' national total purchasing pilot ...