Association between the 2012 Health and Social Care Act and specialist visits and hospitalisations in England: A controlled interrupted time series analysis.
Jamie Lopez BernalChristine Y LuAntonio GasparriniSteven CumminsJ Frank WharamSteven B SoumeraiPublished in: PLoS medicine (2017)
Our findings suggest that giving control of healthcare budgets to GP-led CCGs was not associated with a reduction in overall hospitalisations and was associated with an increase in specialist visits.