Health Foundation 29 October 2019
- This paper explores the distribution of both primary and secondary health care costs in England by assigning costs to each patient based on their recorded activity and utilisation. including GP-prescribed drug cost.
- Analysis identifying the top 5% of users of primary and secondary care services by cost, using a large nationally representative sample in the year 2014/15, found that mean annual costs per patient were over 20 times higher in the top 5% of patients compared with all other patients (£9,789 vs £487).
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