OBJECTIVE--To compare general practitioners' prescribing costs in fundholding and non-
fundholding practices before and after implementation of the NHS reforms in April 1991 …

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 …

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

Objectives: To determine whether the first five waves of English fundholding practices have
reduced their prescribing costs relative to non-fundholding practices, and the duration of any …

Objectives: To compare prescribing in general practices before and after they become
fundholders to assess whether this affected prescribing patterns. Design: Analysis of …

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 …

Objective: To compare prescribing patterns in general practices before and after the
introduction of fundholding in April 1993 to determine whether fundholding changed …

Objective: To examine the effects of a financial incentive scheme on prescribing in non-
fundholding general practices. Design: Observational study. Setting: Non-fundholding …

OBJECTIVE--To compare prescribing patterns between a group of fundholding practices
and a group of non-fundholding practices in north east Scotland using a method which …

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 …