Won’t moving to fair-shares give some practices substantially less funding?
Answer DH policy is moving towards a fair-share allocation and it is appropriate that progress is made in 2007/08 to move towards indicative practice budgets where the practice is a long way from its fair share (+/- 10%). Where this is the case, PCTs should undertake a simple utilisation review with the practice, with the purpose of understanding why the practice is spending more or less than fair-share. This is an opportunity to test prevalence data for robustness and to ensure that all need is met. The move to fair-shares is capped for 2007/08 at 1% of the indicative practice budget, which will ensure that the pace of change is not overly aggressive.
