What's the difference between fundholder and purchasing?
Fundholder
Definition:
(a.) One who has money invested in the public funds.
Example Sentences:
(1) It must make sense that, when every conceivable reform – devolution, centralisation, purchaser-provider split, internal markets, fundholders, commissioners – has been tried and seen to fail, someone should challenge the very concept of a central service.
(2) If you read this document, it too finds that the results of GP fundholding were mixed: some things got better, some things got worse.
(3) Here are four papers on GP fundholding, which is broadly similar to Lansley's GP consortiums.
(4) Next Burstow says I "overlooked the impact assessment we published alongside the health and social care bill, where we present a thorough analysis of the evidence for and against our plans … studies show that GP fundholding and practice-based commissioning delivered shorter waits and fewer referrals to hospitals for patients".
(5) To estimate the financial effect of random yearly variations in need for services on fundholding practices with various list sizes.
(6) It is suggested that differences in standards in general practice may be increased rather than decreased by the fundholding scheme.
(7) We've had GP fundholders, GP multifunds, primary care groups, PCTs, family practitioner committees, purchasing consortiums, and more.
(8) As he will see, studies show that GP fundholding and practice-based commissioning delivered shorter waits and fewer referrals to hospitals for patients.
(9) In place of the arrogance, distrust and inflexibility which had come to characterise the public sector in the 1960s and 1970s, we gave civil servants operational freedoms by creating Next Step agencies, we offered family doctors budgetary freedoms through GP fundholding and we allowed teachers and parents freedom from red tape and local council dogma through GM schools.
(10) The new fundholding scheme, which allows some practices to apply to hold their own budgets and buy services for their patients, could alter the balance of power between the hospitals and general practice.
(11) The Government has taken further steps along the road of making GP fundholders the main gatekeepers of primary care with guidance on how to 'buy in' health visiting and other community services from units or trusts.
(12) And my job, after the election [in 1992], was that we’d got some trusts and fundholders up and running and my task was to get all of that beyond a tipping point.
(13) He claims (and produces plenty of evidence to support it) either full or partial credit for the privatisation of the railways and other industries, for the contracting-out of public services to private companies, for the poll tax, the sale of council houses, the internal markets in education and health, the establishment of private prisons, GP fundholding and commissioning and, later, for George Osborne's tax policies.
(14) "The founders of the Ponzi Victims Coalition are dedicated to pursuing legislative and litigative actions to mitigate the devastating effects these schemes have had upon fundholders, pensioners, stockholders, and all investors – direct and indirect – in these tainted investment instruments," it says.
(15) The legal NGO ClientEarth, which successfully challenged the government over its response to air pollution, said that local authorities which protected their pension fundholders from climate risks were making a far-sighted investment decision, rather than taking a political stance.
(16) In its section on GP fundholding, this "thorough analysis" ignores the four peer-reviewed academic papers I described last week, which sadly found no evidence of an overall benefit from GP fundholding.
Purchasing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purchase
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(3) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(4) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(5) Following baseline, training consisted of teaching students to use a number line to make purchases.
(6) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
(7) Our fundamental market is 75% done,” he said last weekend, “and when we sign one midfield player that crucial work will be done.” The manager did not rule out further purchases, though.
(8) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
(9) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(10) Like many young Chinese, Hua often made purchases on Taobao, the country’s equivalent of eBay.
(11) Howard Archer of consultancy IHS Global Insight said: "Given the dominant role of the services sector in the economy, the steady growth in May reported by the purchasing managers is welcome news and supports hopes that it can avoid further contraction in the second quarter."
(12) The CML said the value of lending for house purchases was up by 8% year on year in May, at £9.4bn, while the number of loans grew by 5% to 53,800.
(13) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(14) It's possible to go out and about, and not talk to anybody apart from the person you purchase goods from."
(15) The company is also making its VR games collection free to all purchasers of its headset.
(16) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
(17) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
(18) The news website is run by journalist Carmen Aristegui, who in 2014 reported that Peña Nieto’s wife was purchasing a house with financing from a government contractor .
(19) For example, if we purchase new examination equipment without any consideration or if we decide what type of equipment to introduce according to the common advice of the purchase committee of the hospital or the medical school, then we cannot design an ideal system of laboratory examinations and are forced to invest a large sum of money in vain.
(20) The euro clawed back some losses after the European Central Bank said it would absorb €16.5bn from the money markets to compensate for bond purchases up to 14 May, and Greece said it would receive the first tranche of emergency loans tomorrow.