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Case Study
  • Monarch helps Tower Hamlets GPs budget for hospital services they commission.
  • by Datawatch Europe

  • Published:December 2006
  • Format: Portable Document Format (.pdf)( 582.9 KB )
  • Length: 2 pages


  • Overview


    Tower Hamlets is a small London Borough containing financial and business centres including London Docklands and a diverse population of around 210,000 people of diverse cultural and social backgrounds, among them a vibrant Bangladeshi community, all in 20 densely packed square kilometres. 38 individual General Practices serve this population.

    As set out in the ‘Practice-Based Commissioning: achieving universal coverage’ published in January 2006, general practices have the right to receive a “firm indicative budget from their PCT at any stage” in a year and thereafter, to enable them “to monitor their referral rates, make better informed clinical decisions and understand the [financial] implications of their clinical decisions”. Tower Hamlets PCT wanted to begin delivering reports to its GPs as early as possible in 2006. The PCT met with its GPs to discuss and to agree the form that the new
    needs to contain information about hospital and consultant services used by each practice’s patients

 
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