Does workforce explain the relationship between funding and patient experience? A mediation analysis of primary care data in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether general practitioner (GP) workforce contributes to the link between practice funding and patient experience. Specifically, to determine whether increased practice funding is associated with better patient experience, and to what degree an increase in workforce accounts for this relationship.

Setting

Primary care practice level analysis of workforce, funding and patient experience of all NHS practices in England.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The link between NHS-provided funding to general practice (payments per patient) and patient experience, as per the General Practice Patient Survey, was evaluated. Subsequently, mediation analysis, adjusted for covariates, was used to scrutinise the extent to which GP workforce accounts for

SUBMITTER: Salant N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882355 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature