Volume 4, Number 3, May-June 2007

Practice-Based Commissioning: Collaboration or Competition?
Ann Marie Johnson

Practice-based commissioning – in which practices and other primary care professionals commission services for their patients – is the latest strategy designed to improve the fit between patients’ needs and service provision. In this article, we take a detailed look at why practice-based commissioning has been introduced, what it will mean in practice and how it will work with other purchasing strategies currently operating.

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