Practice Based Commissioning & Patient & Public Involvement: The New Frontier

PBC offers an opportunity for GP practices, Primary Care Trusts and local people to work together developing more appropriate pathway-based care and more efficient services. The report 'Practice Based Commissioning & Patient & Public Involvement: The New Frontier' explores this area.

However despite a general feeling that users should be involved, views of local communities are rarely taken on board with PBC.

Surveys carried out by NHS Alliance and Developing Patient Pathways suggest that some practices a experiencing barriers to involving patients in the early phases of PBC, despite adequate mechanisms.

(Published July 2007, 26 pages)