Health written question – answered at on 29 October 2012.
Helen Jones
Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) what the staffing level is for NHS improvement programmes for (a) cancer, (b) heart disease and (c) strokes;
(2) what funding his Department provided to (a) cancer and (b) cardiac and stroke networks in 2012-13;
(3) what funding his Department has currently allocated to NHS improvement programmes for (a) cancer, (b) heart disease and (c) strokes;
(4) what the current staffing levels are for NHS (a) cancer and (b) cardiac and stroke networks.
Anna Soubry
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The information requested on staffing levels is not held centrally. Staffing levels for both clinical networks, including cancer networks, stroke networks and cardiac networks, and NHS improvement programmes on cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke are a matter for local national health service organisations and NHS Improvement respectively.
In 2012-13, the Department provided NHS improvement programmes with £22 million for activity on cancer and £18 million for activity on cardiovascular disease and stroke. The Majority of this was provided through the strategic health authority (SHA) bundle. Included in this funding was £18 million identified for cancer networks and £15 million identified for cardiovascular disease and stroke networks.
In addition to funding provided through the bundle, networks receive funding from other sources, such as their constituent, primary care trusts or from one or more of their provider trusts.
Departmental funding allocations are based on estimates of the funding required to deliver clinical networks. However, it is for each SHA to determine how the total amount the receive in the SHA bundle is allocated to specific services, such as clinical networks, taking into account the needs of local populations.
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