Prioritizing services: GPs' views, fundholders versus non-fundholders.
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.
Wakefield Healthcare, UK.
P J
PJ
Ayres
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005380:Financing, Government; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006302:Health Services Research; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012107:Research Design; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom