Question follow-through · 34376

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Carr-Hill formula in producing an equitable distribution of funding.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 27 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 3 Mar 2025
Answer: 7 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Carr-Hill formula in producing an equitable distribution of funding.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Carr-Hill formula aims to ensure that resources are directed to general practices (GPs) based on an estimate of their patient workload. It takes into account many factors under two groups, the 'drivers of workload' and the 'unavoidable costs', which i...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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