Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 2009 - Health Committee Contents


4.  COMMISSIONING

4.1.7  How many people received continuing care in each SHA area in the latest year for which data are available? What effort is being made to determine expenditure on continuing care? (Q33)

Answer

  1.  The information requested is given in table 33. The table shows how many people received continuing care in each SHA in the latest year available, 2008-09.

2.  The national framework for NHS continuing healthcare was introduced in October 2007 to bring consistency in the decision-making process for eligibility. The revised framework was published in August 2009.

3.  In order to determine expenditure for NHS continuing healthcare the Department has introduced Financial Information Management System (FIMS) monitoring, looking to align the commissioning of NHS continuing healthcare in line with the competencies of world class commissioning, and SHAs are undertaking a benchmarking exercise to validate data.

Table 33

NURSING AND CONTINUING CARE


Organisation
code
SHA
Number of people receiving
continuing care 2008-09

Q30North East
2,555
Q31North West
6,571
Q32Yorkshire and The Humber
4,968
Q33East Midlands
3,829
Q34West Midlands
5,232
Q35East of England
3,264
Q36London
7,231
Q37South East Coast
2,614
Q38South Central
4,522
Q39South West
5,813
Total
  
46,599

Source:
Social Care Finance, DH (LDPR line 8228, quarter 4 2008-09)





 
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