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© 1996 British Society for Rheumatology

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COMPARISON OF A COMMUNITY CLINIC WITH A HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT CLINIC IN RHEUMATOLOGY

P. S. HELLIWELL

Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Research Unit, University of Leeds and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Lindley, Huddersfield

Correspondence to: Correspondence to: P. S. Helliwell, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Research Unit, 36 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NZ.

Community clinics are increasingly advocated as a way of delivering specialist health care. In this study, a hospital-based clinic is compared to a rotating community clinic in terms of descriptive consultation data, patient satisfaction, case mix and cost. Among other things, community clinics were more local (1.6 vs 4.9 miles), involved less waiting for the first appointment (47 vs 27% seen within 1 month), provided longer consultation times (49 vs 31% 20min appointments) and produced more satisfactory consultations (82 vs 52% said their questions were always answered). Consultation data, however, showed that less patients were seen in the community clinic (8.6 vs 14.1 patients/doctor/clinic), with a higher old/new ratio (6.04 vs 3.96) and the cost per patient was higher (£15.93 vs £10.35). No differences were found in the case-mix data.

KEY WORDS: Health facilities, Community health services


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