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Table 1 Table 1: Budgetary Control of PPDPs

From: Organisational development in general practice: lessons from practice and professional development plans (PPDPs)

Budget Location

Pros

Cons

Health Authority

. Strategic overview

. Bureaucratic procedures

 

. Objective assessment of

. Lack understanding of general practice-based

 

development priorities

primary care

 

. Management expertise

. Other priorities, e.g. waiting lists and secondary

  

care

  

. Little experience of supporting organisational

  

development in primary care

Primary Care Group

. Local knowledge of priorities

. Local rivalries for resources

(Local Health Groups in

. Good understanding of general

. Other priorities, e.g. drug budgets

Wales)

practice-based primary care

. Often little experience of supporting

 

. Multiprofessional input at PCG

organisational development in primary care

 

board

 

Department of

. Regional overview

. Other priorities and demands, e.g. revalidation /

Postgraduate Education

. Educational expertise

appraisal of general practitioners

for General Practice

. Effective professional network

. No experience of supporting organisational

  

development in primary care

  

. Uniprofessional perspective

General Practice

. Devolved decision making re

. No experience of supporting organisational

 

process and facilitators

development in primary care

 

. Increased ownership and

. Audit and probity: who ensures 'value for money'

 

commitment

and appropriate use of resources?

  

. Quality assurance: who ensures compliance with

  

project specifications?