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The Innovation in Primary Care Contracting programme
This national programme aims to improve and expand local NHS services in areas where it has been difficult to recruit GPs and in PCTs who are willing to try an innovative approach to providing primary care. The Department is making £3.8m available to support the programme.The programme will encourage PCTs, particularly those in disadvantaged communities, to make full use of the existing contractual mechanisms available to them to commission additional new services from entrepreneurial GPs and other primary care providers, including those from the independent and voluntary sectors.
Overview of the programme
Aims of, and background to, the programme and the pilot projects.
Wave one pilots
The first wave of pilots will get under way in the summer of 2005 with a second wave due to be announced later in the year.
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