CHE Policy Forum: Primary care payment systems to reduce health inequality

Title: Primary Care Payment Systems to Reduce Health Inequality

Presented by: Professor Nils Gutacker from CHE

Discussant: Dr John Ford, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Health Equity at Queen Mary University of London & Director of the Health Equity Evidence Centre

Chair: Professor Rowena Jacobs, Deputy Head of CHE

Abstract

Health inequalities affect all modern societies: the more disadvantaged someone is, the worse their health tends to be. People living in the poorest parts of the country have much shorter lives and spend more time with health problems than those in the richest parts. The NHS in England has a legal duty to reduce these health inequalities but often its care is less effective for more disadvantaged people, making health inequalities worse.

One way to address this problem is to give more resources to health services that reduce inequalities, for example by paying GP practices to focus more on interventions that have greater benefits for more disadvantaged patients. In his talk, Nils will present recent research that seeks to answer how one might implement such equity weighting in the way GP practices are paid.

This is a free event, but spaces are limited. Book your place now!

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