Health written question – answered at on 21 July 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 12 July 2010, Official Report, columns 661-681, on NHS White Paper, what (a) funding and (b) other resources will be provided to GPs to enable them to undertake commissioning.
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The NHS Commissioning Board will calculate practice-level budgets and allocate these directly to GP consortia. GP consortia will be responsible for managing the combined commissioning budgets of their member GP practices, and using these resources to improve healthcare and health outcomes.
We envisage that consortia will receive a maximum management allowance to reflect the costs associated with commissioning. Consortia will have the freedom to decide what commissioning activities they undertake for themselves and for what activities (such as demographic analysis) they may choose to buy in support from external organisations, including local authorities, private and voluntary sector bodies.
We will shortly issue a document setting out our proposals in more detail. This will provide the basis for fuller engagement with primary care professionals, patients and the public.
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