NHS: South Tyneside

(asked on 5th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS services in (a) Jarrow constituency and (b) South Tyneside are adequately funded.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 13th March 2018

NHS England meets regularly with each clinical commissioning group (CCG) to review its financial position as the year progresses. This will periodically include a review of expenditure by service type. NHS England is also currently working through the annual planning process for the National Health Service through which all CCGs are required to set their spending plans for the coming year.

The allocation of funding to CCGs is informed by the estimation of the relative health needs of local areas, based on a formula. The formula is based on independent academic research and includes the factors statistically associated with higher or lower need per head for NHS services.

The funding formula is based on the expected size of the population of each CCG and adjustments, or weights, per head for relative need for health care services and unavoidable costs between CCGs.

The CCG then decides how this funding is deployed across the geography and population for which it is responsible to ensure that the needs of the local population are met.

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