AQW 46748/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 05/06/2015
Answered On Date: 18/06/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail what monies have been transferred from acute/primary care to the community care budget since 2011.

Answer:

Details of monies transferred from acute/primary care settings to the community care setting are not held.

Information on the shift of services and associated resources from the acute care setting into primary, community and social care settings is recorded as part of the monitoring of the implementation of Transforming Your Care.

The table below presents a summary of this financial shift.

Shift Left by Year

2012/13	Cumulative Shift Left	2013/14	Cumulative Shift Left	2014/15	Total
£17.43m	£17.43m	£20.83m	£38.26m	£6.05m	£44.31m

Note

Of the total £44.31m of Health and Social Care resources ‘shifted left’ by the end of 2014/15, the areas were:

resettlement of Mental Health / Learning Disability clients (£27.5m)

a range of transformational initiatives in the primary and community setting funded directly by HSCB recurrent funding (£16.29m)

hospital activity avoided (£0.52m)