Under existing arrangements, GPs are paid by a complicated system of fixed fees linked to targets and the number of patients on their list.

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In a series of papers Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber at Deutsche Bank have argued that the present arrangements resemble a revived Bretton Woods, the system of fixed exchange rates after the second world war.

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