Clinical workload in UK primary care: a retrospective analysis of 100 million consultations in England, 2007-14.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care is the main source of health care in many health systems, including the UK National Health Service (NHS), but few objective data exist for the volume and nature of primary care activity. With rising concerns that NHS primary care workload has increased substantially, we aimed to assess the direct clinical workload of general practitioners (GPs) and practice nurses in primary care in the UK.

Methods

We did a retrospective analysis of GP and nurse consultations of non-temporary patients registered at 398 English general practices between April, 2007, and March, 2014. We used data from electronic health records routinely entered in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, and linked CPRD data to national datasets. Trends in age-standardised and sex-stand

SUBMITTER: Hobbs FDR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4899422 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature