Total Purchasing

Rod Smith, Fran Butler, Mike Powell

• 1. An introduction to total purchasing 2. Total purchasing – the health authority perspective 3. The total purchasing group – relations between individual GPs, practices and the health authority 4. Project management 5. Contracting for change 6. The individual fund manager’s role 7. Information management 8. Total purchasing – the acute Trust 9. A priority care Trust perspective 10. Social services and total purchasing 11. Evaluation of total purchasing 12. An alternative model – developing total purchasing in Wiltshire and Bath