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The Network is run by practice managers, for practice managers to offer support and opportunities to share, develop, and influence.

Practice Managers interested in signing up can do so via
http://www.networks.nhs.uk/practicemanagement
As well as download an electronic copy of the Practice Management Networks' first product 'Improving access, responding to patients: a 'how to' guide for GP practices'- before it arrives in all GP practices in late August.

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NAPC Practice Based Commissioning Toolkit

Created in collaboration with HGS Consultancy Limited©, this toolkit is designed for practices, consortia, independent contractors, local authority/social services and other healthcare professionals both within and outside the NHS, wishing to understand PBC.

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Summary Of Operating Framework 2010/11

Key Points

• National priorities remain the same as last year.
• Average funding growth for PCTs will be 5.5 per cent for 2010/11
• There will be a real-terms freeze in funding for frontline services - defined as 95 per cent of the NHS budget - with cuts to the remainder in the following two years.
• £10bn of efficiency savings are required by 2012/12, as an interim milestone toward £15bn-£20bn of efficiencies by 2013.14. These savings will be recycled back into the NHS.
• PCTs are required to agree proposals for the future organisational structure of PCT provided community services with SHAs by March 2010.
• The government is consulting on adding legal rights to maximum waiting times - or the offer to alternative providers - to the NHS Constitution. PCTs will need to ensure these rights are delivered from April 2010.

Commissioning and Providing for GP and Consultant Consortia
A few years on!

Introduction
Following the release of powerful commercial forces, enabling the supply side of the NHS to move towards privatisation through Commissioning and Providing agreements, we find that the hopes and aspirations of many who have geared up for this revolution (namely improved quality of care and patient experience, in addition to achieving value for money through local clinicians redesigning services and patient choice) remain unfulfilled and Commissioning remains an unattractive commercial activity.

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