Question reference: S2W-31871
- Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 19 February 2007
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Current status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 February 2007
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee to submit its recommendations.
Answer
The NHSScotland Resource AllocationCommittee is working to a timetable whereby it will report its recommendations toministers by the end of June 2007.
Over the months of July, Augustand September 2006, the committee undertook a consultation based on the researchit had commissioned in the previous year to determine how the Arbuthnott Formulacould be improved and refined. This included research into population measurementand demography; the resource allocation adjustment for health care needs due tomorbidity and life circumstances and other factors, and the excess costs of supplyinghealthcare services including the remoteness adjustment within the formula. As partof the consultation process the committee also ran three regional workshops in Edinburgh,Aberdeen and Clydebank for interested parties.
The committee recently publishedon its website, www.nrac.scot.nhs.uk,the consultation responses and the analysis of the responses along with a papersummarising the analytical work plan for the final post-consultation phase of itswork.