GP commissioners being set up to fail says leading academic

12 Feb 2012

GP commissioners are being ´set up to fail´ in their task of commissioning £60 billion worth of NHS care because they have no training or infrastructure to fall back on, experts have warned.

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Steve George, Consultant,

29 Feb 2012

There is a Royal College (or least, for the moment, a Faculty) for health service commissioners. It's the Faculty of Public Health. Improving health services by ensuring their clinical effectiveness and efficiency is one of the three work streams of public health, and forms a major part of the curriculum. One has to ask, therefore, why Her Majesty's Government has decided to move the base for the specialty to local authorities. Is it that they didn't know about the work that public health consultants (many of whom originally trained in general practice) do in the NHS, or is it that they didn't want anybody trained in the subject to be involved with commissioning in the future? Or perhaps they wondered where to put Public Health once the NHS was totally privatised...

Steve George. Reader in Public Health, University of Southampton

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