AQW 46748/11-15 Written question to the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
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.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 5 June 2015
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 5 June 2015
- Answer due by
- 22 June 2015
- Answered
- 18 June 201513 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
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)