General practitioners make over 9 million referrals each year, triggering many billions of pounds of expenditure. There is also significant variation in the quality and rate of referral between GPs and GP practices. As the NHS faces a prospective funding gap of £14-£20 billion and GPs take the lead for ...
This paper summarises presentations made at a seminar held at The King’s Fund earlier this year. The seminar brought together commissioners, policymakers, providers and others to summarise some of the available evidence about demand management. It aimed to provide practical, evidence-based
advice to help commissioners and providers develop effective demand ...
Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. They must shift the current emphasis on acute and episodic care towards prevention, self-care and integrated and well co-ordinated care to cope with an aging population ...
The reforms set out in the coalition government’s White Paper have wide ramifications, particularly for GPs. NHS Lincolnshire decided to help GPs to understand the issues and behaviours that might emerge as a result of the reforms by running a simulation exercise with This report offers observations about individual and ...