General Practice Inequalities Datapacks
There are stark inequalities in the supply, demand and need of general practice. ICBs can take action to address these inequalities.
We’ve developed datapacks for each ICB England to help them understand their inequalities and take action.
Below are the datapacks for the East of England ICBs. If you’d like a copy of your own ICBs datapack, please email us [email protected]
Within the datapacks, we calculate the disparity between practices serving the most and least deprived patients for each ICB, across the following categories:
- Resources (supply): Payments, Workforce
- Population (demand): Disease prevalence, Health-related behaviours
- Service quality: QOF achievement
- Access: Patient experience, Appointments
- Impact on secondary care: Emergency admissions, A&E attendances
East of England general practice inequalities Datapacks
This chart shows the percentage distribution of practices in each Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintile by ICBs in the East of England (nationally, 20% of practices serve each deprivation quintile by definition). Practices in the East of England generally serve a population skewed toward lower deprivation levels compared to other parts of the country. However, since a practice’s IMD score is calculated as a population-weighted average of the IMD scores for all LSOAs where its registered patients reside, it may obfuscate pockets of socio-economic disadvantage.
