ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2004
NHS Direct usage in a GP population of children under 5 years: is NHS Direct used by people with the greatest health need?
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Does deprivation affect the demand for NHS Direct? Observational study of routine data from Wales.BMJ open · 2019Observational
- Investigating the public's use of Scotland's primary care telephone advice service (NHS 24): a population-based cross-sectional study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2016Article
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- Who uses NHS Direct? Investigating the impact of ethnicity on the uptake of telephone based healthcare.International journal for equity in health · 2014Article
- The effect of deprivation, age and sex on NHS Direct call rates.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2005Article
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Abstract
This study compares health status, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of users and non-users of NHS Direct in order to establish whether the service is being used by people with the greatest need for healthcare services. It suggests that use of NHS Direct is widespread among carers of children under 5 years old, but there is evidence that it may not be accessed equitably by those from ethnic minorities, lower socioeconomic groups and those with established ill health.
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