A person based formula for allocating commissioning funds to general practices in England: development of a statistical model

To develop a formula for allocating resources for commissioning hospital care to all general practices in England based on the health needs of the people registered in each practiceMultivariate prospective statistical models were developed in which routinely collected electronic information from 2005-6 and 2006-7 on individuals and the areas in which they lived was used to predict their costs of hospital care in the next year, 2007-8. Data on...