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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
• Download RARP 27: GMS contract workload formula (PDF, 997K)
• Download RARP 28: An analysis of the factors predicting GP consultations: a small-area level analysis using Health Survey for England data (PDF, 916K)
• Download RARP 29: Review of population base for PCT allocations post-2008 (DOC, 943K)
• Download RARP 30 Combining Age Related and Additional Needs (CARAN) report (PDF, 9405K)
• Download RARP 31: Review of Specific Cost Approach to Market Forces Factor (PDF, 1499K)
• Download summary of RARP 31 (PDF, 39K)
• Download RARP 32: Review of the Market Forces Factor following the introduction of Payment by Results (2005): exploring the General Labour Market Method (PDF, 1324K)
• Download appendices to RARP 32 (PDF, 2258K)
• Download technical appendix to RARP 32: Calculating the Market Forces Factor for 2008/9 and 2009/10 (PDF, 1712K)
• Download RARP 33 Review of the weighted capitation formula (PDF, 430K)
• Download supplement to RARP 33 (PDF, 284K)