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Author:: Evans, David, Wyke, Sally, Abbott, Stephen, Killoran, Amanda, Mays, Nicholas, Baxter, Kate, Goodwin, Nick, Malbon, Gill, King's Fund, and Scott, Judith
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: The overall aim of the third year of the national evaluation of TPPs, spanning October 1997 to September 1998, was to identify the ingredients of successful devolved purchasing based in primary care by in-depth study of twelve first wave TPPs. The analysis presented here considers eleven of the case studies ...

Author:: Total Purchasing National Evaluation Team, Raftery, James, Malbon, Gill, Bevan, Gwyn, McLeod, Hugh, Abbott, Stephen, Killoran, Amanda, Robinson, Ray, Mays, Nicholas, Posnett, John, Goodwin, Nick, Wyke, Sally, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: Total purchasing was the first major 'internal market' policy initiative to be extensively evaluated by the Department of Health and Scottish Office. This report draws together the main evidence from the evaluation in order to inform the development of the new primary care organisations in the NHS, which came into ...

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, Wyke, Sally, Killoran, Amanda, King's Fund, Malbon, Gill, and Mays, Nicholas
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This working paper from the second year of TPPs makes the following key findings: larger TPPs are becoming high achievers; a group of TPPs (43 per cent) improved their performance over two years, about a quarter remained at the same level and about a third dropped out; a greater proportion ...

Author:: Total Purchasing National Evaluation Team, Wyke, Sally, King's Fund, Killoran, Amanda, Mays, Nicholas, and Malbon, Gill
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: The evaluation of the Total Purchasing Pilots (TPPs) provides important lessons for the development of the new primary care organisations envisaged in the English, Welsh and Scottish NHS white papers. Despite originating in a very different context, total purchasing was essentially about groups of practices working together to develop services ...

Author:: Leese, Brenda, Goodwin, Nick, Wyke, Sally, King's Fund, Mahon, Ann, Malbon, Gill, and Mays, Nicholas
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This working paper is the first report from the national evaluation of total purchasing pilot projects to provide evidence on the achievements of all 53 'first wave' pilots in England and Scotland. It also looks at the range of factors associated with more and less successful total purchasing in 1996-97 ...

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, Mays, Nicholas, Killoran, Amanda, King's Fund, and Malbon, Gill
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: This report draws together the interim findings from the first two years of a three year evaluation of all first and second wave TPPs in England and Scotland which began in October 1995, led by the King's Fund. The report discusses whether first wave TPPs have developed the organisational requirements ...

Author:: Newman, Penny, King's Fund, Boyle, Sean, Morley, Virginia, Mays, Nicholas, and Towell, David
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This report is a review of the evaluation of the London Initiative Zone (L.I.Z.) primary care development projects which were established through the former London Implementation Group (LIG) and which were in progress in 1995/6. It particularly focuses on the evaluation of revenue projects aimed at service development in primary ...

Author:: Total Purchasing National Evaluation Team, Policy Institute (King's Fund), and Mays, Nicholas
Publication date:: 1996
Abstract:: Total purchasing offers fundholding practices the opportunity to purchase all of the health care not included in fundholding for the patients on their lists. This report provides the first comprehensive picture of how the idea of total purchasing is being implemented in all 53 'first wave' national total purchasing pilot ...

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