Improved access to primary care and supply-induced demand

"We examine what supply-induced demand is, distinguishing between demand for services that is stimulated by easier access to new forms of primary care (described as ‘induced demand’) and clinical practice in direct access primary care that stimulates additional use of other services (described as ‘induced utilisation’)."

Meeting need or fuelling demand? improved access to primary care and supply-induced demand 

R Rosen

Nuffield Trust

June 2014

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Patients first: improving access to GP practices

"The purpose of this report is to expand on a previous report, Patient Power, using research from GP practices in urban and rural settings in Scotland to illustrate that the way GP practices operate can vary considerably from whether they operate open surgeries to extended hours, have the ability to process repeat prescriptions online to whether they even have a website."

Patients first: improving access to GP practices
B Thomson, G Mawdsley, A Payne
Reform Scotland
August 2012

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