GP
fundholding has cut out money from hospitals and A & E, so when there's a need for an ambulance, there's no money.
Rice (2009) Health Care Deprivation Profiles in the Measurement of Inequality and Inequity: An Application to GP
Fundholding in the English NHS.
This intervention stemmed from UK's NHS reform (40), which made it possible for doctors to be responsible for part of the budget, receiving and managing a budget ceiling (
Fundholding).
Thatcher brought the concept of
fundholding and the internal market to the NHS.
It means advanced and deferred payment methods, with priority given to per capita financing and gradual introduction of
fundholding.
Anxiety and depression in general practitioners: associations with type of practice,
fundholding, gender and other personal characteristics.
From the advent of General Practitioner (GP)
fundholding in the 1990s to the latest Clinical Commissioning Groups, rationing by healthcare professionals on behalf of the government has become more explicit.
Influences of practice characteristics on prescribing in
fundholding and non-fundholding general practices: an observational study.
There was some piloting and research on General Practitioner
Fundholding, and researchers have attempted to evaluate the changes after the event.
The conditions for
fundholding have not yet been created, noted the project manager.