...: Health care Managers Pharmaceuticals Resource management National Health Service United Kingdom The change in UK primary health‐care provision to one based on groups of GP practices (primary health groups) which control much larger budgets is likely to continue the trend for using...

...Michael J. Hatton; Brian P. Mathews Working for Patients (1989), implemented in 1991, introduced into the National Health Service (NHS) the purchaser‐provider split, which created an “internal market” for health care. The key feature of this internal market was the concept of buying...

... of the Patients’ Charter, and changing patient expectations. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Doctors General practice Health care Quality National Health Service Recent reforms in health care provision in the UK ‐ notably the introduction of the concept of the internal market, GP fundholding...

...Peter W. Turnbull; Noreen E. Parsons Addresses the issue of the adoption of generic drugs by general medical practitioners in the National Health Service in England. The adoption and buyer behaviour of GPs is of central importance to the pharmaceutical industry and to the Government. Reports...