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Local GPs have the opportunity to improve healthcare across Kent and Medway when they take responsibility for an annual NHS budget of ?2billion from Monday, 1 April, 2013.
Eight clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), made up of the area's 273 GP surgeries, will replace primary care trusts and take on responsibility for commissioning the majority of health services for the 1.73million people who live here.
This is part of the national reform of the NHS brought in by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
The logic is that GPs understand patients' needs, know where care is most needed and are best placed to plan and purchase the most appropriate services as well as monitor their quality.
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/NHS-changing-Kent-Medway/story-18482736-detail/story.html
Eight clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), made up of the area's 273 GP surgeries, will replace primary care trusts and take on responsibility for commissioning the majority of health services for the 1.73million people who live here.
This is part of the national reform of the NHS brought in by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
The logic is that GPs understand patients' needs, know where care is most needed and are best placed to plan and purchase the most appropriate services as well as monitor their quality.
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/NHS-changing-Kent-Medway/story-18482736-detail/story.html