§ Mrs. Knightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is planning any action to remedy the inadequacies in the Resource Allocation Working Party formula relating to the protection of medical and dental teaching hospital costs and specialty costs used to calculate funding identified by the report of the Advisory Group on Resource Allocation 1980.
§ Dr. VaughanThe Advisory Group on Resource Allocation carried out a revision of the Resource Allocation Working Party's method of allowing for health service costs incurred in support of medical and dental teaching, and recommended further work on the question. The group also examined the specialty costs used in the RAWP formula and found them to be satisfactory. A study to test the feasibility of further research of teaching hospital costs is in progress; an updating of the analysis of specialty costs will be carried out this year.