Formula Funding of Public Services (Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks)

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Author(s): Peter Smith
Edition: 1
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 192

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 11
Tables......Page 12
Boxes......Page 13
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1 Setting the scene......Page 18
2 Formula funding within a public finance framework......Page 34
3 The elements of formula funding......Page 56
4 Formula funding: a production function perspective......Page 77
5 Empirical methods......Page 91
6 Budgetary risk and formula funding......Page 117
7 Paying for quality: The case of UK general practitioners......Page 134
8 The political economy of formula funding......Page 145
9 Concluding comments......Page 160
Technical appendix A: Some mathematics of risk pooling......Page 171
Technical appendix B: Calculating measures of local health care supply......Page 175
References......Page 178
Index......Page 187