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What general practitioner fundholders want to buy from a psychiatric service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christine Wright
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The Government White Paper ‘Working for Patients' (1989) incorporated the idea of general practitioners (GPs) managing funds in order to purchase health services for the patients under their care. The aim was for decisions about purchasing and providing health care to be taken as close to the patient as possible, by their own GP. It has meant that two forms of purchasing have grown side by side – health authority and GP fundholding. Subsequent policy changes have made fundholding accessible to more practices, and have extended the fundholders' areas of purchasing. More than 50% of the population in England are now covered by fundholding GPs. The proportion of GPs who are fundholders varies enormously geographically, with high levels in the West Midlands, Trent, South Thames, Oxford and Anglia regions, where the collective purchasing function of GP fundholders is now very considerable.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , July 1997 , pp. 225 - 232
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1997 

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