Consultation paper on commissioning published

The Department of Health has published a detailed document outlining how its plans for GP commissioning will work.

The consultation document recomends that GP practices should lose a proportion of their existing income if commissioning consortiums overspend on their budgets.

Read the document, Liberating the NHS: Commissioning for Patients, here: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_117705.pdf