7.5 Health system efficiency
7.5.1 Allocative efficiency
There have been shifts across the United Kingdom favouring primary care over
secondary care, in the hope that better primary care will be cost-efficient and
more effective at treating people before conditions worsen. However, there is
still a disproportionate amount of money tied up in hospital care rather than
primary and community care, and that will need to be addressed if efficiency
is to improve