A new report containing de-identified 2020–21 data from around 10% of Australian GPs and patients has been released.
Hypertension, depression, anxiety disorder, lower back pain, and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) were the top five non-communicable conditions treated by GPs from July 2020 to June 2021, newly published nationwide figures indicate. The 2020–21 General Practice Insights Report, based on 2.5 million patients’ de-identified data from the clinical software of consenting general practices, is the fifth in the series and reveals some of the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Australian primary care. Released by MedicineInsight, a program managed by NPS MedicineWise, the report covers 10.8% of all Australian GPs and 11.4% of all patients seen by GPs nationally and contains a number of fascinating insights, according to GP and NPS MedicineWise spokesperson Dr. Caroline West. ‘It’s a great resource for primary healthcare and to get a sense of what’s happening at a community level,’ she told newsGP. ‘We are dealing with a lot of chronic conditions and people often have more than one condition.’
More than 14 million clinical encounters were included in the report, which collates information on demographics, diagnoses, pathology and radiology requests, and COVID effects. The top five non-communicable conditions seen by GPs in 2020–21 have not changed since the previous report, and hypertension has topped the list every year since the reports began. The report also captures all written prescriptions – whether private, subsidized, or under co-payment – providing a more complete picture than PBS data, which excludes private prescriptions. The most frequently prescribed total prescriptions were medicines for long-term conditions such as depression, dyslipidemia, and GORD.
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