ABSTRACT
Business plans, health plans, fundholding plans and development plans are terms often erroneously used interchangeably. This chapter describes some components of business/health plans. These include the index, a summary or overview of the plan, the purpose of the plan, the history and details of the practice, development proposals, summarized financial information, and supporting appendices. The plan will be more likely to succeed if the writer considers some of the questions that the reader may raise. The chapter explains necessary steps in the production of business/health plans. An estimate is required of the resources needed to achieve the plan, be they financial, staff, accommodation, or skills. The role of the fund manager will be to predict, calculate, interpret and explain the financial implications of the planned changes. It will remain the responsibility of the partners to plan, individually and collectively, the global clinical activity that provides the identified level of health care necessary for the practice's patients.
