Clinical commissioning facts

Why clinically-led commissioning matters
Will clinically-led commissioning work? Many frontline GPs have told me they came into medicine to do the day job, looking after their patients who know them as "their GP". Good. That is why this will work. Only 5% of GPs need to be consortia leaders. The rest of us, 95% of GPs, need to be supporters. We need to look beyond the immediate GP-patient contact to the wider care of our patients.

This website is a resource for busy GPs and practice managers wishing to learn more about how to make commissioning a reality for their patients and practices. The ethos is common sense commissioning: do share your ideas with us too. We feel that we have a special place as representing the "ordinary jobbing GP" and his practice and patients. We major on providing education and support in what will become vast changes to the way in which we all work. Important though leadership and the various competencies are (and they are vital), the whole ship will sink without equally committed Supportership – and here is where I think we can help.

Dr Peter Swinyard, National Chairman read on.