Fund-holding and commissioning general practitioners: recent government policy and legislation
Fund-holding and commissioning general practitioners: recent government policy and legislation
General practice fund-holders purchase secondary care for their patients directly, encouraging competition between providers. The scheme now includes almost all community mental health services. Practice counsellors may now be funded from secondary care budgets. Fund-holders may use their purchasing power to influence out-patient policies, have consultant sessions in their surgeries, gain direct referral to community psychiatric nurses, resist sectorisation, or change to a different provider altogether. The implications for mental health teams and their patients are discussed. Mental health workers must define their roles very clearly, and get involved in negotiating contracts now, to influence future service provision.
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Kendrick, Tony
c697a72c-c698-469d-8ac2-f00df40583e5
1994
Kendrick, Tony
c697a72c-c698-469d-8ac2-f00df40583e5
Kendrick, Tony
(1994)
Fund-holding and commissioning general practitioners: recent government policy and legislation.
Psychiatric Bulletin, 18 (4), .
(doi:10.1192/pb.18.4.196).
Abstract
General practice fund-holders purchase secondary care for their patients directly, encouraging competition between providers. The scheme now includes almost all community mental health services. Practice counsellors may now be funded from secondary care budgets. Fund-holders may use their purchasing power to influence out-patient policies, have consultant sessions in their surgeries, gain direct referral to community psychiatric nurses, resist sectorisation, or change to a different provider altogether. The implications for mental health teams and their patients are discussed. Mental health workers must define their roles very clearly, and get involved in negotiating contracts now, to influence future service provision.
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Published date: 1994
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Primary Care & Population Sciences
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/353939
ISSN: 0955-6036
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