CENTRE FOR HEALTH ECONOMICS Increasing patient choice in the management of minor ailments in primary care
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We examine the effects of a feasibility scheme to provide easier access to pharmacists for patients with minor ailments. The scheme allowed pharmacists to prescribe and dispense medicines currently limited to general practitioners (GPs) without patients loosing their right to free prescriptions. We formulate a model of the rationing of GP consultations and GP supply decisions. We estimate a reduced form equation for total GP consultations and find that they are unaffected by the intervention but that the proportion for minor ailments decreases. We also examine patient choices between GP and pharmacies with a variety of multinomial models and find that the main determinant is the type of minor ailment. Distance appears to have no effect on patient choice. JEL Nos: I11, I18
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