Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual funding application requests made by clinicians were turned down by Cheshire West and Merseyside Integrated Care Board as of June 2023.
Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB) validated data is collated for completed (closed) applications each month, as such, the ICB can only provide data up to May 2023. The following tables shows the approved and not approved Individual Funding Request (IFR) applications received between July 2022 and May 2023.
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB IFR applications | 2022 | |||||
July | August | September | October | November | December | |
Approved | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Not Approved | 23 | 36 | 36 | 40 | 57 | 26 |
Total | 24 | 37 | 37 | 41 | 58 | 28 |
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB IFR applications | 2023 | ||||
January | February | March | April | May | |
Approved | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Not Approved | 22 | 30 | 32 | 31 | 32 |
Total | 22 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 33 |