Jake Beech

Dec 12, 2023 | healthcareleadernews.com | Rebecca Fisher |Jake Beech |Julie Griffiths

Despite greater health needs in poorer areas, general practice in the most deprived parts of England is under-funded and under-doctored. This inverse care law is not new, but attempts to fix it have failed. Efforts have often been small in relation to the problem, and the Carr-Hill funding formula – which fails to account for the impact of deprivation on health needs – has been used since 2004. Creating primary care networks (PCNs) in 2019 wasn’t intended to fix the inverse care law.