Healthcare Economist January 12, 2024
That is the title of a paper by Bodnar et al. 2023. A summary of this interesting paper is below.
Overview of general practitioners in the UK
Under the English National Health Service (NHS) program,
…patients register with a single general practice that acts as the gatekeeper to most other NHS services, including non-emergency hospital care. Almost all general practices are small businesses owned and run by partnerships of GPs who share profits and losses…
The English NHS is funded almost entirely by taxation. There is a small patient charge (£8.80 in 2018/19) when a primary care prescription is dispensed, be it by a pharmacy or an on-site GP dispensary. Around half of the population are exempt from this...
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