Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications for NHS continuing healthcare funding in (a) Darlington constituency and (b) the rest of England were approved following an appeal.

The most recent data available on Local Resolution and Independent Reviews, which review the eligibility of NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) decisions, is for the second quarter of 2023/24, representing July to September 2023.

For the second quarter of 2023/24 in England, 102 of 554 or 18% of requests for local review of an eligibility decision for CHC were found eligible. For the same time period in England, there were 102 independent review panels carried out. Of those, 17 cases or 17% were determined as fully eligible, and 5 cases or 5% were determined as partially eligible.

NHS England does not collect these data at individual constituency level.