... of internal NHS trust governance systems in the fulfilment of commissioning agreements. Kate Baxter can be contacted at: kb515@york.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 United Kingdom Contracts National Health Service Primary care Secondary care Control The case studies...

.... The comments could be divided into five categories: staff issues; managerial/organisational issues; quality; objectives; and negative factors. Most gave more than one comment about their pilots. © MCB UP Limited 2003 General practice Contracts Health authorities Change management Health...

...Pauline Allen; Bronwyn Croxson; Jennifer Roberts; Shirley Crawshaw; Kate Archibald; Lynda Taylor This paper reports a national study which investigated the involvement of infection control professionals in (and their views about) the formal processes of contracting for health care in the NHS...

...Victoria Allgar; Brenda Leese; Phil Heywood; Reg Walker Contracts and interim local evaluation reports for the 14 first wave PMS pilots in Northern and Yorkshire region were analysed by documentary analysis. Both contracts and reports were found to vary considerably in size and scope. Most...

... of contracting by TPPs during the first year of purchasing, concentrating on the perceived relationship between aspects of the contracting process and the achievement of TPPs’ strategic objectives. These findings are of relevance to the development of commissioning by primary care groups in light...

...)5. Notes that, although most purchasers chose to contract directly with a single commercial homecare organization in 1995‐1996, there was no consensus about where contracts should be placed in the future, and that the purchasers identified inefficiencies in contracting for such care. Discusses...

...(95)5, Purchasing High Tech Healthcare for Patients at Home was to ensure that contracts placed by health authority purchasers maintain effective patient services and obtain better value for money by encouraging competition between potential homecare providers. Examines contracting for high...

...David Brookfield The introduction of market forces into the NHS has led to an operational divorce between health care providers and those who need health‐care. Central to this change has been the widespread use of contracts. As a management problem, contract negotiation must incorporate...

...Sybil Myerson Investigates the effects of policy change‐the Government New Contract (1990) – on the workload and lives of family doctors,using an open‐ended interview approach and numerical research adapted from it. Provides an account of 20 urban general practitioners′perceptions of their stresses...

...Sybil Myerson Describes relationships in general practice and the manner in which these have changed since the implementation of the new contract in 1990– based on the perceptions of 20 urban general practitioners revealed by an open‐ended, unstructured interview approach aiming to uncover...

...Stephen Bach The UK Government's White Paper lias met with mixed reactions partly created by the imprecision of the proposals. However, there is a precedent for contracts as, since 1983, competitive tendering has been mandatory for ancillary services in the NHS. This paper explores the experience...