Centre for Health Economics, University of York, January 2016
- This analysis of trends in retrospective analysis of socioeconomic inequalities of primary care access, quality and outcomes in England 2004/2005 and 2011/2012 found that investments in GP services led to improved healthcare across all socio-economic groups, particularly among the poorest, between 2004 and 2011. However there was only a modest reduction in inequality in preventable deaths and admissions through A&E.
- The research measured the relationship between social inequality and (1) patients per family doctor, (2) primary care quality, (3) inpatient hospital waiting time, (4) emergency hospitalisation for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions, (5) repeat emergency hospitalisation in the same year, (6) dying in hospital, (7) mortality amenable to healthcare and (8) overall mortality.
