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Section 6 - Practice-led commissioning in PMS
At the time of writing, the Department of Health has plans to introduce “practice-led commissioning” through PMS agreements. This proposals are defined in very vague terms, but the intention is to allow practices, or consortia of practices, to “take responsibility for”, while not actually holding, a budget to use for procuring the delivery of specified services to their patients, essentially making them commissioning agents of the PCO. It may be possible to then reinvest any savings made in patient services in general.
This guidance will be updated when the proposals become clearer.