Battle of the cheapest?

Your professional future may be decided in the next few weeks. As reported last month, officials at the Department of Health are planning to evolve the national GOS budget to PCTs and local commissioning.

Your professional future may be decided in the next few weeks. As reported last month, officials at the Department of Health are planning to evolve the national GOS budget to PCTs and local commissioning.

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Their plotting will gain few headlines in the mass media, as their blueprint for change is buried within the Health Improvement and Protection Bill, the Government's effort to impose limits on smoking in public.

However, its clauses to 'modernise' ophthalmic services will undoubtedly mean that some rather than all of the practices in your area will be given the rights to carry on providing GOS.