By Susie Sell, 05 August 2011
Dr Kingsland: clinical commissioning groups will be able to deliver efficiency savings of at least 4% when they take over the commissioning agenda
A GP investigation found that 45 out of 76 PCTs were not achieving the required 4% efficiency savings in 2011/12.
But England's national clinical commissioning network lead at the DoH Dr James Kingsland said the findings show that reform in the NHS is needed.
He said: ?In a way this [failure of PCTs to deliver the efficiency challenge] should be expected. If all of a sudden PCTs delivered 4% efficiency savings I would ask two questions: why hadn?t they done this in the past and why are we having reform if able to do it now?? �
NHS Alliance chairman Dr Michael Dixon added that GPs will be better than PCTs in mobilising clinicians to change and improve services and get more ?cost effective referrals, prescriptions and diagnostics?.
He said: ?The findings tell you why we need clinical commissioning groups. PCTs aren?t meeting the efficiency targets because they haven't re-designed care and looked seriously at how to move care from hospitals to the community or how to improve self-care.?
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