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Who provides GP after-hours care?

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  • 1Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, The Australian National University, Cnr Mills and Eggleston Roads, Acton, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia.

Health Policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Female, older, and urban general practitioners (GPs) are less likely to provide after-hours care. Practice owners and solo practitioners are more likely to work longer after-hours shifts when they do participate.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Services Research
  • General Practice Workforce Studies
  • Medical Sociology

Background:

  • Increasing demand for after-hours general practitioner (GP) care necessitates understanding workforce supply factors.
  • Demographic and financial influences on GP after-hours service provision require investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify demographic and financial factors influencing GP participation in after-hours care.
  • To determine factors associated with the workload intensity of GPs providing after-hours services.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the first wave of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) survey.
  • Employed logistic regression to analyze the decision to undertake after-hours work.
  • Applied linear regression to examine the volume of after-hours work undertaken.

Main Results:

  • Female, older, and urban GPs demonstrated lower likelihoods of engaging in after-hours work.
  • Employee GPs were less likely to participate in after-hours care compared to principals or partners.
  • Principals, partners, and solo practitioners who provided after-hours care tended to work longer hours.

Conclusions:

  • GP demographic characteristics (gender, age, location) significantly influence after-hours care participation.
  • Practice ownership and structure (principal, partner, solo) impact both participation and workload intensity.
  • Financial factors like wages and family income appeared to have a less significant influence on after-hours work decisions.