Patient co-payments for general practice

Patient co-payments for general practice.

good for patients and a tool for promoting practice federation, the key to modernising primary care. Combining this with a clamp on primary care funding appears illogical but ensures that more and more partners will be replaced by assistants until partnerships become neither viable nor identifiable. When partners themselves demand a salaried service, no doubt to be managed by private healthcare...

Co-morbidity in general practice.

BACKGROUND Co-morbidity, or the presence of more than one clinical condition, is gaining increased attention in epidemiological and health services research. However, the clinical relevance of co-morbidity has yet to be defined. In general practice, few studies have been conducted into co-morbidity, either at a single health care encounter, an episode of care, or for a defined time period. AI...

General practice deprivation payments: are rural practices disadvantaged?

The use of the Jarman under privileged area (UPA) scoring system as a means of remunerating general practitioners (GPs) for the additional workload associated with deprivation has been the subject of much debate and criticism. GPs who are based in rural practices often fail to attract any deprivation payments and are particularly aggrieved. They criticise the UPA system for being more sensitive...

Patient co-payment for general practice services: slippery slope or a survival imperative for the NHS?

Co-payments for general practitioners in Denmark: an analysis using two policy models

BACKGROUND The increasing health expenditure for general practitioners (GPs) in Denmark requires that other ways of financing the health system are investigated. This study aims to analyse possibilities for implementing out-of-pocket payments to GPs in Denmark. METHODS The study was conducted as a literature review with 11 articles included. The Health Policy Triangle and the Kingdon Model we...