GP performance tracker shows where costs could be saved
BMJ 2016; 355 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i6728 (Published 19 December 2016) Cite this as: BMJ 2016;355:i6728- Nigel Hawkes
- London
A new analytical tool enables general practices to be compared with others with a similar patient population to discover how widely they vary in performance and how they might improve.
The tool uses data from many sources to compare measures of GP performance such as prescribing costs, cancer referrals, and emergency admissions—not against neighbouring practices but against 99 practices nationally that match the target practice’s size, demography, ethnic mix, geography, deprivation, and disease prevalence.
Michael von Bertele, former head of Army Medical Services and now chair of Trayned Insight, …
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