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<strong>KCE</strong> Reports 1771<br />

5.4.4. Financial<br />

inc<strong>en</strong>tives<br />

Data on econommic<br />

analysis are ssummarized<br />

in the e chapter 6. This ppart<br />

only<br />

m<strong>en</strong>tions the financial<br />

inc<strong>en</strong>tives<br />

set up to attrac ct health professiionals<br />

in<br />

the new after-hoours<br />

care model.<br />

In The Nether<strong>la</strong>ands<br />

and in the UUK<br />

GPs are paid per hour on call: there is<br />

no financial incc<strong>en</strong>tive<br />

to influ<strong>en</strong>nce<br />

the pati<strong>en</strong>t’s choice (GP coooperative<br />

versus emerg<strong>en</strong>ncy<br />

departm<strong>en</strong>t).<br />

In D<strong>en</strong>mark, GGPs<br />

are paid a fee per consulta ation according to<br />

a fee<br />

schedule. The ffees<br />

are graded: doctors are <strong>en</strong>co ouraged to give teelephone<br />

consultations rrather<br />

than face-to-face<br />

consultat tions or home vvisits.<br />

In<br />

France and Italy,<br />

after-hours caare<br />

is paid on a fee f for service baasis,<br />

but<br />

g<strong>en</strong>erally with a fixed remuneratiion.<br />

5.4.5. Charaacteristics<br />

of the model most frequ<strong>en</strong>tly<br />

used in the 5<br />

countrries<br />

The model of ccooperatives<br />

is thhe<br />

most common one in The Nethher<strong>la</strong>nds,<br />

UK and D<strong>en</strong>maark<br />

and the GPs wwere<br />

the main initia ators.<br />

In France and Italy primary caree<br />

c<strong>en</strong>tres are org ganized and regu<strong>la</strong>ted<br />

by<br />

regional authorities<br />

comprising inndep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t<br />

bodie es of GPs.<br />

5.4.5.1. Faccilities<br />

Number of c<strong>en</strong>ntres<br />

in the counntry<br />

The Nether<strong>la</strong>nnds<br />

and the UKK<br />

count more than t 130 and 1152<br />

GP<br />

cooperatives reespectively.<br />

In De<strong>en</strong>mark<br />

there are e 16 county-baseed<br />

after-<br />

hours organizattions<br />

with five reggional<br />

based servi ices. For France aand<br />

Italy<br />

no data are avaai<strong>la</strong>ble.<br />

Popu<strong>la</strong>tion covvered<br />

by the afteer-hours<br />

organization<br />

In The Nether<strong>la</strong>ands<br />

50 to 250 GGPs<br />

take care of popu<strong>la</strong>tions ranging<br />

from<br />

100,000 to 5000,000.<br />

In D<strong>en</strong>maark<br />

the popu<strong>la</strong>tion n served by the differ<strong>en</strong>t<br />

cooperatives iss<br />

equal to the nuumber<br />

of people living in the five regions<br />

(ranging fromm<br />

580.515 citizz<strong>en</strong>s<br />

to 1,7 million). In Itaaly,<br />

the<br />

physician/popu<strong>la</strong>tion<br />

ratio is oone<br />

after-hours care doctor peer<br />

5,000<br />

inhabitants. Theere<br />

are no data avvai<strong>la</strong>ble<br />

for France e and the UK.<br />

Affter-Hours<br />

Primaary<br />

Care<br />

LLocation<br />

In<br />

the Nether<strong>la</strong>ndss,<br />

UK, D<strong>en</strong>mark aand<br />

France facilities<br />

for after-hourss<br />

care<br />

aare<br />

oft<strong>en</strong> situatedd<br />

near or withinn<br />

a hospital, but there is no forrmally<br />

rregu<strong>la</strong>ted<br />

pati<strong>en</strong>t fflow<br />

with the hosppital<br />

or its emerg<strong>en</strong>ncy<br />

departm<strong>en</strong>t.<br />

TThe<br />

tr<strong>en</strong>d in the NNether<strong>la</strong>nds,<br />

D<strong>en</strong>mmark<br />

and the UK is to co-locate thhe<br />

GP<br />

ccooperative<br />

and thhe<br />

emerg<strong>en</strong>cy deepartm<strong>en</strong>t<br />

(ED), oft<strong>en</strong><br />

with one <strong>en</strong>trance<br />

aand<br />

desk with a triiage<br />

nurse.<br />

In<br />

Italy after-hourss<br />

primary care c<strong>en</strong>ntres<br />

work indep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>tly<br />

from hosppitals.<br />

55.4.5.2.<br />

Humaan<br />

resources<br />

GG<strong>en</strong>eral<br />

practitioners<br />

• Proportion of GPs or practices taking part in afteer-hours<br />

care<br />

In<br />

the Nether<strong>la</strong>nds<br />

and in the UK respectively 98% % and 90% of thee<br />

GPs<br />

taake<br />

part in after- hours care. In De<strong>en</strong>mark<br />

GPs havve<br />

a legal obligatiion<br />

to<br />

taake<br />

part in afterr-hours<br />

care, but in practice this is oft<strong>en</strong> delegated<br />

to<br />

yyounger<br />

doctors. In France 78% oof<br />

the primary carre<br />

practices offer after-<br />

hhours<br />

arrangem<strong>en</strong>nts.<br />

For Italy, theere<br />

are no official data avai<strong>la</strong>ble oon<br />

the<br />

nnumber<br />

of physicians<br />

taking parrt<br />

in after-hours care, neither oon<br />

an<br />

inndep<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t<br />

basiss<br />

nor within a primmary<br />

care c<strong>en</strong>tre.<br />

• Workload of GGPs<br />

In<br />

the Nether<strong>la</strong>ndss<br />

GPs are 4 hours<br />

on call per weeek,<br />

and GP shifts <strong>la</strong>st 6<br />

too<br />

8 hours. GPss<br />

have differ<strong>en</strong>tt<br />

roles including home visits, cc<strong>en</strong>tre<br />

cconsultations,<br />

andd<br />

telephone triagee<br />

consultation (<strong>la</strong>rrger<br />

cooperatives have<br />

a specific telephone<br />

GP who only<br />

provides teleephone<br />

consultaations,<br />

ssupervises<br />

the nurrses<br />

and authorizee<br />

the triage nursee<br />

contacts).<br />

In<br />

D<strong>en</strong>mark the wworkload<br />

varies acccording<br />

to GPs and<br />

regions: somee<br />

GPs<br />

aare<br />

8-16 hours onn<br />

call per month but other GPs hhave<br />

a more impoortant<br />

wworkload<br />

(up to 488<br />

hours per monthh).<br />

In<br />

Italy after-hourss<br />

doctors’ duty shifts<br />

<strong>la</strong>sts 12 hours.<br />

FFor<br />

the UK and Frrance<br />

there is no oofficial<br />

informationn<br />

avai<strong>la</strong>ble.<br />

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