(formerly, in the National Health Service in Britain) the system enabling general practitioners to receive a fixed budget from which to pay for primary care, drugs, and nonurgent hospital treatment for patients
Derived forms
fundholder (ˈfundˌholder)
noun
Examples of 'fundholding' in a sentence
fundholding
Internal market, purchaser/provider split, fundholding, commissioning - call it what you like.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Second, what research was completed in the 1990s suggested that fundholding had serious flaws.
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It was just when the fundholding debate was taking place.
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Finally, fundholding was unable to bring about substantial or sustained improvements in hospital behaviour -for example, in reducing waiting times.