Did you find any relationship between cost of New Outpatients and
unscheduled admissions?
i.e. is there any suggestion that patients who should have been referred but
haven't been, end up as emergency admissions instead?
Mary Hawking
-----Original Message-----
From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Gardiner
Sent: 10 October 2010 18:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Analysis of referrals
The graph was cost of New Out-Patient attendances as % of total spend
against average spend per registered patient (not just those who had been
referred)
And the higher the % spend the lower the average cost of healthcare.
Dr Roger Gardiner
On 10 Oct 2010, at 16:58, "Walter Tim (FALKLAND SURGERY)"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sounds intriguing...
>
> BUT I could produce a simple graph too, but what criteria did you use for
referrals and "spend"
>
> BW Tim
>
> On 10 Oct 2010, at 12:58, Roger Gardiner wrote:
>
>> I did a simple graph for my PBC which showed that the more you refer the
LESS you spend/registered patient.
>>
>> Not quite the result the PCT expected - the board meeting was silent for
30 seconds after I distributed the graph.
>>
>> They are now checking the effect across the PCT but if confirmed the lack
of effect of referral management centres etc. is explained.
>>
>> I'm waiting for further analysis to see if the extra costs came through
prescribing/A+E/more complex interventions when they were referred or
something else.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Saul Galloway <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 23:35
>> Subject: Analysis of referrals
>>
>> Does anyone have either first hand audit data of the breakdown of
>> referrals by specialty and/or reason or know of any UK research data
>> about this?
>>
>
>
>
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