In 1990 the UK Government announced the introduction of general practitioner (GP)
fundholding whereby GPs were given a budget from which to purchase some health care …

BACKGROUND: The cornerstone of the National Health Service (NHS) reforms was the
establishment of an internal market, which separated purchasing and providing roles. As …

A new development in the British National Health Service is fundholding, whereby certain
general practitioners are given budgets from which they purchase services for patients. Our …

Background An earlier paper published in this journal suggested that fundholding practices
in Lincolnshire had managed to constrain the growth in their prescribing costs more …

Objectives: To observe changes in prescribing practice that occurred after the introduction of
fundholding in first wave practices and to contrast these with changes occurring in similar …

The published evidence on the effects of General Practitioner Fundholding, a major feature
of the 1991 reorganization of the UK National Health Service, is reviewed with regard to the …

In April 1991, a radical programme of public health care reform was introduced by the
Conservative Government. The avowed intention of the programme was to improve the …

Fundholding general practices have been observed to be more successful than non‐
fundholders in controlling the growth of their prescribing costs. Debate persists over the …

Background Medicines prescribed by general practitioners constitute a major item of
National Health Service expenditure and evidence suggests that prescribing patterns vary …

This paper uses a logistic regression model based on 1993 data for general practices in a
single Family Health Services Authority (Lincolnshire) to analyse the differences in …