GP fund holders can buy the services they want from the hospital of their choice. They know that any money they can save can be ploughed back into investment in their own practice for their own patients. They have an incentive to seek the best value for money and the best standards of care. The other side of the coin is that hospitals which have become self-managing trusts have a renewed independence. Local hospitals now have an incentive to attract more patients by providing better services and seeing those services judged and measured by GPs and the local Community which they serve.
Education is the key to a prosperous and civilised society.
It helps determine how we behave to one another and how well the economy performs in the long run. This government is committed to raising standards in education by increasing choice. Parents can vote with their feet and take their children away from schools that fail to deliver the high standards they expect. The National Curriculum and the performance tables of schools play an important part, by informing parents both of what they should expect their children's schools to achieve and what they actually achieve. We have delegated responsibility for the delivery of education from the administrator to the teacher.