Association between the 2012 Health and Social Care Act and specialist visits and hospitalisations in England: A controlled interrupted time series analysis.

BACKGROUND:The 2012 Health and Social Care Act (HSCA) in England led to among the largest healthcare reforms in the history of the National Health Service (NHS). It gave control of £67 billion of the NHS budget for secondary care to general practitioner (GP) led Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)....

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Main Authors: James A Lopez Bernal, Christine Y Lu, Antonio Gasparrini, Steven Cummins, J Frank Wharam, Steven B Soumerai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002427