WP4: Health Economics

Cost implications involved in adopting different approaches to decarbonisation using a primary care budget impact model.

The study team develop a budget impact model to establish baseline costs and resource usage for general practices under a ‘business as usual’ scenario, under different categories of activity that contribute to carbon emissions (e.g., energy utilisation, asthma prescribing, travel, consumables). A practice-specific budget impact model (BIM) has be developed for each of the 12 participating case study practices, populated with their own baseline data. Scenarios of different interventions that could be undertaken were applied, and used to provide each practice with information on areas where changes can be made, and the resulting cost implications over a 12-month period.

At the end of the year, follow up spend-based data collected from each practice was inputted into the budget impact model to show how associated costs have changed as a result of decarbonisation activity.

Data collection has now concluded.

WP4 Publications

Under development: A publication describing WP4 findings is under development for publication in the British Journal of General Practice.

Enquiries:

Dr Ana Raquel Nunes

GPNET0@warwick.ac.uk

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