The usage of data in NHS primary care commissioning: a realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care has been described as the 'bedrock' of the National Health Service (NHS) accounting for approximately 90% of patient contacts but is facing significant challenges. Against a backdrop of a rapidly ageing population with increasingly complex health challenges, policy-makers have encouraged primary care commissioners to increase the usage of data when making commissioning decisions. Purported benefits include cost savings and improved population health. However, research on evidence-based commissioning has concluded that commissioners work in complex environments and that closer attention should be paid to the interplay of contextual factors and evidence use. The aim of this review was to understand how and why primary care commissioners use data to inform thei

SUBMITTER: Jager A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318817 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature