A descriptive analysis of health care use by high cost, high need patients in England

A descriptive analysis of health care use by high cost, high need patients in England Despite the increasing financial pressure on the NHS over the past decades, there has been little research to understand the distribution and concentration of health care costs across the population.

This paper explores for the first time the distribution of both primary and secondary health care costs in England, including GP-prescribed drug cost. Identifying high-cost, high-need patients and examining the way in which they use health care services might help to design initiatives to reduce costs or to improve efficiency. The Health Foundation

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• Average annual costs per patient for the top 5% of patients are over 20 times higher than all other patients The Health Foundation