Co-operation and conflict under hard and soft contracting regimes: case studies from England and Wales

Table 1 Meetings observed

	England		Wales
	Case Study Alpa	Case Study Beta	Case Study Delta	Case Study Gamma
Contracting Meetings	22	10	7	5
Quality	3	1
Individual Patient Commissioning			11
Cross-border Commissioning			1	1
Reconfiguration/ finance/demand management/clinical networks				16

Note. In Wales, regular contracting meetings were suspended with the impending restructuring of the service, and instead we observed meetings concerned with planning the unified health board framework that would replace contracting. In the text the organisations within Alpha case study, are labelled as Alpha PCT, Alpha trust1, Alpha trust2 and so on, to indicate that their association.

ISSN: 1472-6963