• Practice based commissioning

  Information on practice based commissioning for GPs

• Practice based commissioning in 2008-09, January 2009

  Practice based commissioning will mostly continue along the same lines in 2008-09 as at present and so the existing requirements and arrangements still stand.

• The dual role of practice based commissioner and GP provider: avoiding conflicts of interest and ensuring probity, January 2008

  This dual role has drawn some attention and concern from within both primary and secondary care.

• Letter to Lord Darzi on GP access and the interim report of the Next Stages Review

  On 4 December 2007 the Chairman of the GPs Committee wrote to Lord Darzi on some of the proposals of the Next Stages Review and other developments in procurement of new practices.

• Commissioning framework for health and wellbeing, revised August 2007

  It is proposed to implement this framework from 2008/09 and a series of questions for consultation are included in the document.

• The relationship between practice based commissioning (PBC) consortia and local medical committees (LMCs) - July 2007

  A very brief question and answer style guidance note on the relationship between practice based commissioning and LMCs (England only)

• Focus on the towards practice based commissioning directed enhanced service (England only), April 2007

  Guidance on the towards practice based commissiong directed enhanced service - how it works and what it covers.

• Practices' entitlements and PCTs' responsibilities in respect of practice based commissioning in 2007-08.

  This is a model letter, published in May 2007, to a primary care trust (PCT) from the local medical committee (LMC) and/or GP practices.

• Payment of component 2 of the towards practice based commissioning directed enhanced service, March 2007

  Guidance on the arrangements for payment of component 2 of the one-year towards practice based commissioning directed enhanced service which ends on 31 March 2007.

• 'Health reform in England: update and commissioning framework': GPC summary/analysis of new policy developments in relation to PBC, August 2006

  The commissioning framework provides an update about health reform and focuses on commissioning NHS services, in particular hospital services.

• BMA principles for effective and successful commissioning, November 2006

  A series of principles which the BMA would wish to see upheld as the role of commissioning of patient care develops.

• Practice based commissioning: GPC guidance for general practitioners and local medical committees, March 2005

  Guidance on why practices should get involved in practice based commissioning, including how to move forward, budget setting, and choose and book - applicable to England only.

• Service provision

  Information on service provision for GPs

• New NHS Primary Care procurements, May 2008

  Guidance for GPs and LMCs on the procurement of new primary care services following the Interim Report of Lord Darzi's Next Stage Review.

• Care closer to home, October 2007

  The BMA supports care being delivered 'closer to home' where it is clinically appropriate and safe to do so, where sound evidence supports such a shift and where these new services will genuinely offer a cost-effective option.

• GP - Role of the independent sector in primary care

  A parliamentary briefing paper, published in December 2006, which gives an overview of Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contracts.

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