How is a member’s basic contribution calculated?
Each member’s basic contribution is calculated by determining their relative risk compared to other members of CNST. Each member’s risk is measured in terms of the number, clinical specialty and grade of Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) staff that they employ and the number of babies delivered. To set the 2012/13 contributions, the following information is analysed: · claims data held by the NHSLA; · the number of WTE staff employed by each member at 31 August 2011; and · the number of registered births in 2010/11 by member. The purpose of the analysis is to measure the relative riskiness of different clinical specialties. The primary measure considered for each specialty is the value of claims per WTE. However, obstetric risk is estimated by considering the value of claims per birth rather than the number of obstetric WTEs (i.e. obstetricians and midwives). This is because the number of births is believed to be a better indicator of obstetric risk than the number of obstetric WTEs. Each cl
