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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Shailen Sutaria, Graham Kirkwood, Professor Allyson PollockORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Sage Publications Ltd, 2019.
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Objectives: Examine impact of NHS funded private provision on NHS provision, access and inequalities.Design: Ecological study using routinely collected NHS inpatient data. Participants: All individuals undergoing a NHS funded elective hip arthroplasty in England from 2003/04 to 2012/13. Main outcome measures: Annual crude and standardised rates of hip arthroplasties per 100,000 population performed by NHS and private providers between 2004/05 and 2012/13.Results: Age standardised rates of hip arthroplasty increased from 116.4 (95% CI 115.4 to 117.4) to 148.7 (147.6 to 149.8) per 100,000 between 2004/05 to 2012/13. Provision shifted from NHS providers to private providers from 2007/08; NHS provision decreased 8.6% and private provision increased 188% between 2007/08 and 2012/13. There is evidence of risk selection; private sector hip arthroplasties on NHS patients from the most affluent areas increased 228% from 10.8 (10.2 to 11.5) to 35.4 (34.3-36.5) per 100,000 compared to an increase of 186% from 8.8 (8.1-9.4) to 25.2 (24.1-26.4) per 100,000 among patients from the least affluent areas between 2007/08 to 2012/13. There was no statistically significant (p>0.05) widening in any measure of inequality (absolute, relative difference and slope and relative slope of index inequality) in hip arthroplasty rates between 2004/05 to 2012/13.Conclusion: Private provision substituted for NHS provision and did not add to overall provision favouring patients living in the most affluent area. Continuing the trend towards private provision and reducing NHS provision is likely to result in risk selection and widening inequalities in provision of elective hip arthroplasty in England.
Author(s): Sutaria S, Kirkwood G, Pollock AM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Year: 2019
Volume: 112
Issue: 7
Pages: 292-303
Print publication date: 01/07/2019
Online publication date: 06/06/2019
Acceptance date: 30/04/2019
Date deposited: 24/05/2019
ISSN (print): 0141-0768
ISSN (electronic): 1758-1095
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076819851701
DOI: 10.1177/0141076819851701
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