The proposed abolition of Primary Care Trusts and transfer of their commissioning functions to GP consortia have been greeted with intense excitement by some GPs, and with extreme trepidation by others. This book explains what commissioning is and how to do it, enabling clinicians to flourish as commissioners in the new NHS. Some topics that will be familiar to readers, such as long term conditions management, patient safety and the wider determinants of health, are explored here from a commissioning perspective. Others which may be less familiar, such as how to delegate, how to improve...

Learn how to read, understand, and write better SAS programs

� Understand the key differences between similar SAS syntax and programming approaches
� Save time in writing SAS code with organized summaries of important facts
� Improve your trouble-shooting skills in common programming and data related problems
� Reinforce your SAS knowledge with more than 150 technically challenging questions

Ideal for intermediate to advanced SAS users, Sharpening Your SAS Skills shows how to write and diagnose the most common programming tasks in data access, data management,...