Journal article
Associations between corporate ownership of primary care providers and doctor wellbeing, workload, access, organizational efficiency, and service quality
A Scott, T Taylor, G Russell, M Sutton
Health Policy | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD | Published : 2024
Abstract
Traditionally, in many countries general practices have been privately-owned independent small businesses. However, the last three decades has seen the rise of large corporate medical groups defined as private companies which are able to have non-GP shareholders and with branches across many locations. The greater prominence of profit motives may have implications for costs, access to care and quality of care. We estimate that 45% of GPs in Australia worked in a practice that was a private company, and within this group over one third (19.9% of total) worked in a corporate medical group (a private company with 10 or more practice locations). We examine the association between being in a corp..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research used data from the MABEL longitudinal survey of doctors. Funding for MABEL was provided by the National Health and Medical Research Council (2007 to 2016: 454799 and 1019605) ; the Australian Department of Health and Ageing (2008) ; Health Workforce Australia (2013) ; The University of Melbourne, Medibank Better Health Foundation, the NSW Department of Health, and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (2017) ; and the Australian Government Department of Health, the Australian Digital Health Agency, and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (2018) . The study was approved by The University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics Human Ethics Advisory Group (Ref. 0709559) and the Monash University Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans (Ref: 195535 CF07/1102 - 2007000291) .