Much of the money went to deputizing additional police.
The deputizing rapporteur has also raised the matter of public agencies.
Those nonresponders who could not be contacted by telephone because of an answering or deputizing service were sent another questionnaire by post, with another covering letter.
A cross-sectional survey of all models of out of hours care was undertaken, including co-operatives, deputizing services, practice rotas and rural general practitioners doing their own cover.
During the study period the practice had four full time partners, just under 8000 patients and used an out of hours deputizing service.
Costs per 1000 population varied from £2196 for a commercial deputizing service to £12 120 for a medium-sized urban/rural co-operative.
It should also be observed, however, that deputizing a standard setter in this way creates a corresponding ' accountability gap' in government as well.
