Buckinghamshire doctors welcome GP commissioning model (From Bucks Free Press)

Buckinghamshire doctors welcome GP commissioning model

1:20pm Tuesday 20th July 2010 in

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A NETWORK of doctors in south Buckinghamshire have welcomed the chance to commission services for their patients.

Last week the coalition Government announced plans for every GP practice to take over commissioning by 2013 - with NHS Buckinghamshire and Primary Care Trusts across the country being axed.

Bucks Primary Care Collaborative - an existing commissioning body - works on behalf of 34 GP practices in south Buckinghamshire.

Dr Annet Gamell, chairman of the group, said its members are “already well down the road” to establishing GP commissioning.

Dr Gamell, of Kingswood Surgery in Totteridge, High Wycombe, added: Through working in partnership with NHS Buckinghamshire, our Primary Care Trust, we expect to be one of the forerunners developing the concept in advance of the national roll out.”

She said members welcome the changes and the opportunity it offers to “drive quality for care and choice to our patients”.

The GPs will aim to move more care into the community and closer to home - where patients say they want to be treated, according to the BPCC.