General practice deprivation payments: are rural practices disadvantaged?
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General practice deprivation payments: are rural practices disadvantaged?
The use of the Jarman under privileged area (UPA) scoring system as a means of remunerating general practitioners (GPs) for the additional workload associated with deprivation has been the subject of much debate and criticism. GPs who are based in rural practices often fail to attract any deprivation payments and are particularly aggrieved. They criticise the UPA system for being more sensitive...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.8.530