Worse treatment of poor people by GPs costs the NHS £4.8bn a year, study finds Excess hospital admissions of people from poorer parts of England cost the NHS £4.8bn in a single year, according to new research.
An analysis by York university academics found there were264,000 excess admissions from less well-off areas between April 2014 and April 2015.
The researchers said they had not found out the exact reasons behind the problem, but added that poor people were not being looked after as well as rich people by GPs.
They said this was not necessarily the fault of the doctors, but could be a systemic problem or because poorer people were not going to their local surgery for some reason. The Independent
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An analysis by York university academics found there were264,000 excess admissions from less well-off areas between April 2014 and April 2015.
The researchers said they had not found out the exact reasons behind the problem, but added that poor people were not being looked after as well as rich people by GPs.
They said this was not necessarily the fault of the doctors, but could be a systemic problem or because poorer people were not going to their local surgery for some reason. The Independent
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