Conservatives would resurrect GP fundholding if they came to power

摘要

A Conservative government would bring back GP fundholding in England, but under a different name, party leader David Cameron seemed to suggest when he spoke at the influential health think tank the King's Fund this week. He promised that GPs would be able to retain their own budgets for spending on patient healthcare — the same principle which underpinned fundholding introduced under the previous Conservative administration in the early 1990s but abolished by the Labour government after it came to power in 1997.