Prioritizing Services: GPs′ Views, Fundholders versus Non‐fundholders

Abstract

Aims to assess the level of agreement between priorities of service provision in 20 discrete clinical areas, as laid out in a district health authority (DHA) purchasing plan, and the views of GPs in the catchment area of that authority and to test for a statistically significant difference between the views of fundholding and non‐fundholding GPs. A 74 per cent response rate was achieved, and analysis suggested that local GPs′ views were broadly in line with their DHA strategy, and that a significant difference existed between the views of fundholders and non‐fundholders in only one treatment area, namely that of lithotripsy. Concludes that the postal questionnaire is a cheap and easy method of assessing the views of GPs on prioritizing issues. As yet there is little difference between fundholding and non‐fundholding GPs in this area of decision making.

Citation

Ayres, P.J. (1994), "Prioritizing Services: GPs′ Views, Fundholders versus Non‐fundholders", Journal of Management in Medicine, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/02689239410052577