Practice-based commissioning budget guidance for 2009/10

PCTs are responsible for ensuring that practices receive an indicative budget that reflects the needs of their population as accurately as possible. This allows a practice to access a 'fair share' of the resources available to the whole of the PCT for its patients. The Department has updated the toolkit that can be used to determine weighted capitation indicative budgets at practice level. This is part of the DH ongoing commitment to refine the methodology and improve accuracy.
To accompany the toolkit the DH have also produced guidance which sets out:

• Changes to the recommended methodology for deriving practices fair shares for 2009/10
• Changes to the minimum pace of change to practices budgets for 2009/10
• Information on how to use a new toolkit that can help PCT set budgets

Published February 2009