DEVELOPMENTS - WENT FUNDHOLDING, GOING COMMISSIONING? SOME EVIDENCE-BASED REFLECTIONS ON THE PROSPECTS FOR PRIMARY CARE GROUPS - Although GP fundholding is ending, its operation provides useful evidence about how GPs approach participation in the planning of health care. Christopher J Cowton and Julie E Drake reflect on the prospects for PCGs, drawing on original research into the reasons why practices volunteered to 'go fundholding' and how those practices selected their 'lead' partner, on whom much of the fundholding burden fell

In: Public money & management: integrating theory and practice in public management, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 33-38