@inproceedings{cdf219659ce244999ea4e9000fe19f42,
title = "The results and challenges of using administrative health data within a natural experimental evaluation of the abolition of prescription fees in Scotland",
abstract = "In April 2011 Scotland abolished the prescription fee (co payment) which had applied to all community prescribed items. Nicola Sturgeon, then Scottish Health Secretary, had described the prescription fee as a 'tax on ill health.' Beyond reporting on the change in number of items prescribed, no evaluation of the policy had been planned or commissioned. However, the availability of administrative prescribing and hospital admissions data permitted the design and conduct of an interrupted time series evaluation of any impact of the policy change.",
keywords = "Co-payment, Fees, Hospital admission, Interrupted time series, Natural experiment, Pharmaceutical, Prescription, Quasiexperimental",
author = "Williams, \{Andrew James\} and William Henley and John Frank",
note = "Funding Information: Farr Institute @ Scotland, which is funded by the following consortium: Arthritis Research UK, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the National Institute of Health Research, the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (Welsh Assembly Government), the Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Government Health Directorates), (MRC Grant No: MR/K007017/1). JF and AJW worked for the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy which is funded by the SCPHRP core grant from the Medical Research Council (Grant Number MR/K023209/1) and the Chief Scientist Office of Scotland. WH received support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for the South West Peninsula. The funders played no role in the conceptualisation or realisation of the research and no role in the decision to submit it for publication. Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Corri Black, Chris Dibben, Ruth Jepson, Anne Ludbrook, Jill Pell, Marion Bennie, Simon Hurding, Sean MacBride-Stewart, Margaret Ryan, Stuart McTaggart and Doug Kidd. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 14th IEEE International Conference on eScience, e-Science 2018 ; Conference date: 29-10-2018 Through 01-11-2018",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1109/eScience.2018.00128",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE 14th International Conference on eScience, e-Science 2018",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
pages = "412",
booktitle = "Proceedings - IEEE 14th International Conference on eScience, e-Science 2018",
address = "United States",
}