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GPs beat private firms to 75% of APMS contracts
13-Feb-07
Almost three quarters of APMS contracts to date have been awarded to entrepreneurial GPs ahead of private providers, according to researchers.
They concluded that, although contracts had begun to be awarded to private firms, no ‘revolution' had yet taken place.
Last year Chris Town, chairman of government White Paper advisory group the Working in Partnership Programme, forecast up to 30 per cent of practices in England could be run by private providers by 2010.
A team from the King's Fund sent Freedom of Information requests about APMS contracts in October 2006 to all of England's 153 PCTs.
They asked whether PCTs had put any primary care services out to tender since April 2004, when APMS was introduced, and whether an APMS contract had been awarded.
Of the 122 PCTs that replied, 69 had invited tenders and 34 APMS contracts had been awarded by 28 PCTs.
Entrepreneurial GPs were awarded 24 of the 34 contracts, with nine going to non-NHS firms and one to an NHS trust.
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Colin Cooper
13/02/2007
Many GPs who are concerned about large companies moving into primary care may take some solace from these figures. But the fact is that Chris Town's prediction is still correct as a proportion of the contracts being put up by PCTs, and the multi-nationals are only just getting started.
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