Supplementary evidence submitted by the
Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (PPI 109A)
ANALYSIS—BUDGET
REQUIRED TO
DELIVER THE
LINKS PROPOSALS
An analysis by the Commission on the budget
required to deliver the LINks proposals gives a requirement of
£64 million, more than twice the CPPIH budget.
In 2006-07 CPPIH had a budget of £28 million
and if all of this money was divided equally between the 150 LINks
this would amount to circa £180k each. Our understanding
is that a formula will be applied so LINks that cover a bigger
population, ie Manchester, will receive more than LINks that cover
a much smaller area, ie Isles of Scilly.
Based on the Commission's experience of running
Forum Support Organisations (FSOs) a typical LINk would need to
receive a budget of over £424k, and a breakdown of these
costs is shown below:
THE COST
OF DELIVERING
A LINK
| Staffing | Cost—£
| Notes |
| 1 LINk Manager | 55k |
Includes "on costs" |
| 1 LINk Lead | 40k | Includes "on costs"
|
| 2 Administrators | 50k |
Includes "on costs" |
| 1 Researcher | 35k |
Includes "on costs" |
| £180k |
|
| Infra-Structure | |
|
| Office accommodation, furniture and non-IT equipment
| 35k | 3 rooms, including a small meeting room, will be required for a county-wide LINk in DDA compliant offices
|
| Computers including maintenance | 10k
| Computers plus peripherals with maintenance. (This figure makes no provision for providing access to IT for other users).
|
| Telephone and postage | 13k
| LINks will have big postage bills! The nature of the membership will require regular mailshots as well as web-based work.
|
| Audit Fees | 7k |
|
| Legal Fees | 4k |
|
| £69k |
|
| Activities | |
|
| Recruitment of LINks members, including CRB checks for some members
| 20k | Leaflets, roadshows, interviews, radio advertising, newspaper advertising, etc.
|
| 12 monthly "formal" LINks meetings
| 20k | Hire of an appropriate venue, refreshments, equality costs eg carers, signers, translators at meetings, etc. In context, the signing costs alone of 12 x 3 hour meeting would be £4,320
|
| "Informal" working group meetings x 40
| 35k | Hire of rooms, refreshments, equality costs eg carers, signers, translators at meetings, etc.
|
| LINks members' expenses | 20k
| Visits, attending meetings and reimbursing all other "out of pocket" expenses. Members are volunteers and although giving of their time they cannot be expected to be out of pocket. We expect that those members representing organisations will claim their expenses from the organisations.
|
| Learning and development and briefings |
20k | Critical to ensure that LINks members are appropriately advised to enable engagement with key issues.
|
| Publicity, publications, public meetings and events
| 25k | Newspaper notices informing communities of meetings, etc. There is a requirement to have materials available in different languages and modes.
|
| Communicating the issues, work and achievements of LINks
| 35k | Research reports, LINk annual report, newsletters, bilingual services
|
| £175k |
|
| Grand Total | £424k
| |
Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
January 2007
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