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
|
|
| Q30 | North East |
2,555 |
| Q31 | North West | 6,571
|
| Q32 | Yorkshire and The Humber
| 4,968 |
| Q33 | East Midlands | 3,829
|
| Q34 | West Midlands | 5,232
|
| Q35 | East of England | 3,264
|
| Q36 | London | 7,231
|
| Q37 | South East Coast |
2,614 |
| Q38 | South Central | 4,522
|
| Q39 | South West | 5,813
|
| Total |
| 46,599 |
|
| Source: |
| Social Care Finance, DH (LDPR line 8228, quarter 4 2008-09)
|
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