General practice workload

Increases in general practice workload in England

2270 www.thelancet.com Vol 387 June 4, 2016 Primary care services form the backbone of health care in most high-income countries. Yet, there are growing concerns about the eff ects that numerous changes in the content and delivery of primary care have had on the workload of primary care practitioners. In a retrospective analysis in The Lancet, F D Richard Hobbs and colleagues investigated the d...

Relationship between new and return consultations and workload in general practice.

General practitioners (GPs) in Tayside, with higher weekly surgery workloads, tended to have a greater proportion of return consultations compared with GPs with smaller workloads. By reducing the number of return consultations, GPs could have a notable effect on their workload and alleviate the, oft-quoted, stress induced by the perceived increase in demand for patient care.

General-practice workload, needs, and resources in the National Health Service.

Workload and reward in the Quality and Outcomes Framework of the 2004 general practice contract.

BACKGROUND The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) of the 2004 UK General Medical Services (GMS) contract links up to 20% of practice income to performance measured against 146 quality indicators. AIM To examine the distribution of workload and payment in the clinical domains of the QOF, and to compare payment based on true prevalence to the implemented system applying an adjusted prevalence...

Prediction of general practice workload from census based social deprivation scores.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to compare the ability of census based social deprivation scores devised by Jarman, Carstairs, and Townsend to predict workload in general practice. DESIGN This was a prospective study of 140,050 patients registered with general practices over one year from 1 July 1981 (Third National Morbidity Survey). Main outcome measures were workload score for each patient, de...