Offering incentives to GPs improves clinical care but does not promote healthy lifestyles or improve patients' quality of life, according to findings published today in the journal Heart.
Researchers compared coronary heart disease results in Northern Ireland, where there are incentives in the GP contract, and the Republic of Ireland, where there is no performance-related pay.
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