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Prescribing Cost Savings by GP Fundholders: Long-Term or Short-Term?
✍ Scribed by David K. Whynes; Tara Heron; Anthony J. Avery
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 26 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
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✦ Synopsis
Fundholding general practices have been observed to be more successful than non-fundholders in controlling the growth of their prescribing costs. Debate persists over the likely duration of this fundholding effect. Regression analysis of changes in prescribing costs for a large sample of practices over 5 years supports the view that prescribing cost economies have been short-rather than long-term, and that practices entering fundholding did not engage in strategic, cost-raising behaviour prior to joining the scheme.