TY - JOUR
T1 - Primary care groups in the United Kingdom
T2 - Quality and accountability
AU - Bindman, Andrew B.
AU - Weiner, Jonathan P.
AU - Majeed, Azeem
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - With the introduction of primary care groups (PCGs), the British National Health Service has attempted to integrate delivery, finance, and quality improvement into a locally directed care system with a strong sense of community accountability. PCGs will eventually hold the budgets for primary care, specialist, hospital, and community-based services and have the flexibility to reapportion these budgets. Through clinical governance, PCGs are attempting to coordinate education, guidelines, audit and feedback, and other quality improvement approaches around health problems that are relevant to their patient panels and local communities. PCGs offer other nations attempting to improve the quality and accountability of health care an innovative approach that merits consideration.
AB - With the introduction of primary care groups (PCGs), the British National Health Service has attempted to integrate delivery, finance, and quality improvement into a locally directed care system with a strong sense of community accountability. PCGs will eventually hold the budgets for primary care, specialist, hospital, and community-based services and have the flexibility to reapportion these budgets. Through clinical governance, PCGs are attempting to coordinate education, guidelines, audit and feedback, and other quality improvement approaches around health problems that are relevant to their patient panels and local communities. PCGs offer other nations attempting to improve the quality and accountability of health care an innovative approach that merits consideration.
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U2 - 10.1377/hlthaff.20.3.132
DO - 10.1377/hlthaff.20.3.132
M3 - Article
C2 - 11585160
AN - SCOPUS:0035349558
SN - 0278-2715
VL - 20
SP - 132
EP - 145
JO - Health Affairs
JF - Health Affairs
IS - 3
ER -