Relationship between general practice capitation funding and the quality of primary care in England: a cross-sectional, 3-year study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the relationship between general practice capitation funding and quality ratings based on general practice inspections.

Design

Cross-sectional study pooling 3 years of primary care administrative data.

Setting

UK primary care.

Participants

7310 practices (95% of all practices) in England which underwent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections between November 2014 and December 2017.

Main outcome measures

CQC ratings. Ordered logistic regression methods were used to predict the relationship between practice capitation funding and CQC ratings in each of five domains of quality: caring, effective, responsive, safe and well led, together with an overall practice rating.

Results

Higher capitation funding per patient was significa

SUBMITTER: L'Esperance V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6858150 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature