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Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains
10 March 2021
…analysing efficiency are exacerbated in primary care. In many countries, primary care provides the first point of access to health care in case of need, coordinates patients’ care with specialists,…
Improving the Measurement of Valued Output in Primary Care in England
1 August 2022
…primary care as a service providing long-term, continuing, and generalist support to patients, measuring primary care output comprehensively while capturing the impact on health is a known challenge. This work…
The Future of Primary Care
1 January 1996
…United States highlight many aspects of the international debate about the future of primary care. In the United Kingdom the government has adopted an objective of a ‘Primary care led…
New OHE Research Funding: Improving Labour Productivity in Primary Care
17 December 2019
…implementation. A reproducible algorithm for measuring primary care labour productivity will also be released to enable ongoing performance measurement and long-term service improvement across the entire primary care sector. The…
Influencing Prescribing in a Primary Care Led NHS
11 January 2002
…form of Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), collectively known as Primary Care Organisations (PCOs). These organisations have a unified budget that incorporates primary care prescribing into…
Primary Care and the NHS Reforms: A Manager’s View
1 March 2000
Writing on the future of Primary Care Groups/Trusts, and of Labour’s health service reforms in general, invites subsequent ridicule by those blessed with the clarity of vision hindsight provides. The…
Health and the Use of Medicines in Primary Care in Wales
1 November 2011
In this, report commissioned by the ABPI in Wales, OHE Consulting examines the use of medicines in primary care in Wales since 2000 compared to the other countries of the…
Efficiency and Labour Productivity of Primary Care in England
23 April 2024, 2:00pm
…this webinar, we covered: Why efficiency and productivity are key for primary care in England and what we know so far How we propose to improve the measurement of primary…
Quality in Primary Care: Economic Approaches to Analysing Quality-Related Physician Behaviour
6 January 2003
This monograph sets out the insights from applying an economic perspective to a fundamental problem for any health service: ensuring cost-effective care when outcomes from care are uncertain and there…