The preparation and writing of this report was co‑ordinated by Caroline Berchet and Frederico Guanais. Chapter 1 was written by Caroline Berchet and Frederico Guanais, Chapter 2 by Caroline Berchet, Cristian Herrera and Frederico Guanais, Chapter 3 by Caroline Berchet, Dionne Kringos (Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam), Errica Barbazza (Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam) and Frederico Guanais. Kees van Gool (University of Technology Sydney), Chunzhou Mu (University of Technology Sydney) and Jane Hall (University of Technology Sydney) carried out the statistical work underpinning the analysis of Chapter 3. Chapter 4 was written by Caroline Berchet and Frederico Guanais. Dionne Kringos (Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam) and Erica Barbazza (Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam) provided inputs to the policy analysis presented in Chapter 4. The preparation of Chapter 5 was a joint effort of a team of authors from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Hong Wang, Brienna Naughton, Ethan Wong, Nicholas Leydon, Caitlin Mazzilli, Susna De and Jean Kagubare) and the Ariadne Labs (Dan Schwarz, Amy VanderZanden and Asaf Bitton).
This report also benefited from the material received from Alexandre Barna and Hélène Colombani (the Fédération Nationale des Centres de Santé), Luc Besançon (pharmaSuisse), Erkkila Eila (Deputy Chief physician – City of Oulu), Mary McCarthy (European Union of General Practitioners) and Lukas Sekelsky (Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic). The authors are also grateful to the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research which provided access to the Quality and Costs of Primary Care (QUALICOPC) data, and in particular to Peter Spreeuwenberg for its research assistance. Neither they nor their institutions are responsible for any of the opinions expressed in this report.
At the OECD, Ian Forde, Michael Van den Berg and Niek Klazinga helped shape the overall direction of the report in an early phase. Nick Tomlinson, Francesca Colombo, Mark Pearson and Stefano Scarpetta provided valuable comments and suggestions at various stages of the project. Lukasz Lech, Duniya Dedeyn, Lauren Thwaites, Liv Gudmundson and Lucy Hulett provided vital support in the publication process. Thanks also go to José Bijholt, Frédéric Daniel, and Gabriel Di Paolantonio for their statistical support. The report was edited by Gemma Nellies.
The authors would also like to extend gratitude to all of the delegates of the OECD Health Committee for their responses to the policy questionnaire and for providing valuable comments on a summary document presented to the OECD Health Committee in June 2019 and to a draft version circulated in August 2019.