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<p>NHS England meets regularly with each clinical commissioning group (CCG) to review
its financial position as the year progresses. This will periodically include a review
of expenditure by service type. NHS England is also currently working through the
annual planning process for the National Health Service through which all CCGs are
required to set their spending plans for the coming year.</p><p> </p><p>The allocation
of funding to CCGs is informed by the estimation of the relative health needs of local
areas, based on a formula. The formula is based on independent academic research and
includes the factors statistically associated with higher or lower need per head for
NHS services.</p><p> </p><p>The funding formula is based on the expected size of the
population of each CCG and adjustments, or weights, per head for relative need for
health care services and unavoidable costs between CCGs.</p><p> </p><p>The CCG then
decides how this funding is deployed across the geography and population for which
it is responsible to ensure that the needs of the local population are met.</p>
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