AQW 14104/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 04/02/2021
Answered On Date: 19/02/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health how the New Decade, New Approach funding for Health Service transformation has been spent this financial year.

Answer:

The 2020-21 Budget provided £44 million of ring fenced New Decade New Approach funding for Transformation.

This was augmented by additional funding reprioritised by my Department through both recurrent and non-recurrent funding streams – and also including additional funding through the June monitoring process - to create a Transformation funding pot worth almost £94.4 million.

This funding met the inescapable costs associated with the existing Transformation programme which was originally established in 2018.

Transformation projects funded in 2020-21 support the entire HSC portfolio and include key priorities identified under New Decade, New Approach such as:

an additional 900 nursing and midwifery undergraduate places over three years

support for the development of a strategy, and implementation plan on cancer

further roll out of Multi-Disciplinary Teams in Primary Care.