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Deprived areas will lose out with proposed new capitation formula

Author(s) -

Clare Bambra,

Amy L. Copeland

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

bmj

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.831

H-Index - 429

ISSN - 1756-1833

DOI - 10.1136/bmj.f6146

Subject(s) - capitation , inequality , weighting , politics , measure (data warehouse) , public economics , relative deprivation , actuarial science , economics , political science , medicine , economic growth , mathematics , computer science , health care , law , data mining , mathematical analysis , radiology

NHS funding is allocated to areas on the principle of providing “equal opportunity of access for equal need.”1 To help achieve this, the current NHS allocation formula incorporates a deprivation related measure: the “health inequality weighting.”1 The relative roles of deprivation and age as determinants of health have been subject to political debate over the past years,2 3 4 and NHS England is consulting …

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