The NHS Executive has recently implemented modifications to the weighted capitation formula for distributing Hospital and Community Health Service funds to health authorities in England. A major contribution to the changes was an analysis of the relative needs of geographical areas undertaken by...

In late 1985 the Secretary of State for Health and Social Services set up a review of the resource allocation formula created by the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP) in 1976. This review may be completed early in 1987 and will raise major issues about the efficiency of the NHS and...

The allocation of funding and the distribution of the workforce in primary care is very unequal in England. Whilst hospital resources have been allocated in relation to a weighted capitation formula in each of the component parts of the United Kingdom since the late 1970s, there have been...

The RAWP formula for the allocation of health care resources between Regional Health Authorities is being revised. It is being suggested that a socio-economic factor should be included as a measure of deprivation as well as the mortality rates. The favoured measure, the Jarman index, is...

Certain rules have been developed on the minimum increases in public spending needed to cover the costs of aging and the costs of new technology. In practice elderly people only use certain kinds of service and much of the increase has had to be used to finance changes in other services. From...