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General Practitioners: Finance

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 19 March 2025UIN 37766

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35425 on General Practitioners: Finance, what data was used to calculate the standardised (a) Limited Long-Standing Illness and (b) Mortality Ratio for people under 65 years old.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

The weighting in the Carr-Hill formula for Standardised Limited Long-Standing Illness was estimated using the Health Survey for England data for 1998 to 2000. The weighting for the Mortality Ratio for people under 65 years old was estimated from Office for National Statistics (ONS) data for 1996 to 2000.

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