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fundholding
(formerly, in the National Health Service in Britain) the system enabling general practitioners to receive a fixed budget from which to pay for primary care, drugs, and nonurgent hospital treatment for patients


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He previously held the deputy director of finance position for North Tyneside PCT from 2002 to 2004 and prior to that, he was primary care group manager for Whitley Bay PCG and GP fundholding manager for Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authority.
York University's Professor Alan Maynard, the economist whose ideas led to GP fundholding and Nice, the body which assesses the clinical performance of drugs, is fond of saying we should use as a template the 1845 Lunacy Act.
1997 Designed to Care This Scottish White Paper sets out the new Labour government's stall for phasing out the internal market, and with it GP fundholding and contracting for services.
 
 
 
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