Supporting practice based commissioning in 2007/08 by determining weighted capitation shares at practice level

The Department of Health has developed a simple toolkit that can be used to determine weighted capitation indicative budgets at practice level. The data files for use in the toolkit have now been updated to include 2006 data. The weighted capitation formulae are benchmark Supporting practice based commissioning in 2007/08 by determining weighted capitation shares at practice level.Welcoming social enterprise into health and social care guide to determine 'fair resource shares' and not an automatic means to set indicative budgets. As detailed in 'Practice based commissioning: Practical Implementation', practice indicative budgets in 2007/08 should be calculated on the basis of actual activity (at 2007/08 prices), current formulae for prescribing plus uplift and weighted capitation where no historic data is available.

(Published 2006, Updated March 2007)