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Last modified date:11 September 2007
Catalogue of the major research papers (RARPs) and working papers (RAWPs) commissioned by ACRA and its predecessor body.
Resource Allocation Research Papers
The Department has produced a catalogue of the major research papers (RARPs) commissioned by ACRA and its predecessor body.
- RARP 1: Sharing resources for Health in England - Report of the Resource Allocation Working Party
- RARP 2: Report of the Advisory Group on Resource Allocation
- Download RARP 3: Geographic variations in the cost of health service inputs: Government Economic Service Working Paper No.35 (PDF, 1865K)
- RARP 4: Review of the Resource Allocation Working Party Formula (Interim report)
- RARP 5: Review of the Resource Allocation Working Party Formula (Final report)
- Download RARP 6: National average cost weights by specialty group (PDF, 798K)
- RARP 7: A Formula for Distributing NHS Revenues Based on Small Area Use of Hospital Beds: Occasional Paper 22, Centre for Health Economics, University of York - in Portable Document Format (opens new window)
- RARP 8: The Resource Allocation Consequences of the New NHS Needs Formula: Discussion Paper 134, Centre for Health Economics, University of York - in Portable Document Format (opens new window)
- RARP 9: Report of the Prescribing Allocations Group
- Download RARP 10: A literature review of local variation in the needs of people with a learning disability for health service input (Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol, July 1996) (PDF, 2390K)
- Download RARP 11: Interim needs indicators for community health services - NB: LARGE FILE (PDF, 8139K)
- Download RARP 12: Labour Market Forces and NHS Provider Costs (Institute of Employment Research, University of Warwick) (PDF, 3781K)
- RARP 13: No Need to Weight Community Health Programmes for Resource Allocation?: Discussion Paper 146, Centre for Health Economics, University of York - in Portable Document Format (opens new window)
- Download RARP 14: A study of costs of providing health services in rural areas (PDF, 7272K)
- Download RARP 15: Measuring need for people with learning disabilities - report for the Department of Health Resource Allocation Group (PDF, 291K)
- RARP 16: The Unavoidable Costs of Ethnicity: A Review for the NHS Executive (Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations and Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Warwick) - available from the Stationery Office online bookshop (opens new window)
- RARP 17: Equity of access to health care - Occasional Paper 32, Centre for Health Economics, University of Yortk - in Portable Document Format (opens new window)
- Download RARP 18: National average specialty treatment and hotel costs (PDF, 607K)
- Download RARP 19: The role of private healthcare in the York indices of healthcare needs (PDF, 36K)
- Download RARP 20: Assessment of the costs to the NHS arising from the need for interpreter, advocacy and translation (IAT) services (PDF, 3698K)
- RARP 21: Towards Locally Based Resource Allocation in the NHS: Discussion Paper 159, Centre for Health Economics, University of York - in Portable Document Format (opens new window)
- RARP 22: Derivation of a needs based capitation formula for allocating prescribing budgets: Occasional Paper 34 (OP34), Centre for Health Economics, University of York - in Portable Document Format (opens new window)
- Download RARP 23: Review of drugs misuse allocation formula: ACRA (PDF, 332K)
- Download RARP 24: A GMS needs measure based on the GHS (PDF, 699K)
- Download RARP 25: Spatial Variations in Labour Costs - 2001 Review of the Staff Market Forces Factor (Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick) (PDF, 5908K)
- RARP 26: Allocation of resources to English areas
Resource Allocation Working Papers
ACRA has agreed that some of the more substantive papers (RAWPs) produced for their meetings would be catalogued and made available on request.
- Download RAWP 1: History of Staff Market Forces Factor (PDF, 113K)
- Download RAWP 2: Population Data For Allocations (PDF, 97K)
- Download RAWP 3: The Exeter Data Set and Attribution (PDF, 194K)
- Download RAWP 4: A Brief History of Resource Allocation in the NHS 1948-98 (PDF, 72K)
- Download RAWP 5: A History of GP Distribution (PDF, 166K)
- Download RAWP 6: The Years of Life Lost Index and Health Inequalities Adjustment (PDF, 112K)
- Download RAWP 7: The Staff MFF (PDF, 158K)
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