Health Services: Cambridgeshire

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the current five year funding formula addresses actual as well as forecast growth in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG area.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 27th March 2019

NHS England is responsible for decisions on the weighted capitation formula used to allocate resources between clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). This process is independent of Government. NHS England takes advice from the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA), a group of academics and other experts.

NHS England published five-year CCG allocations 2019/20 to 2023/24 on 8 February 2019 at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-core-services/

In making these allocations, NHS England accepted all recommendations made by ACRA, including changes in the way population estimates and projections are used. NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s revenue allocation is based on the actual average registered population in the 12 months to October 2018, which was 967,902. Using population growth rates estimated by the Office for National Statistics, the allocations include an estimated population growth to 973,472 in 2019-20 (0.62% growth). We continue this approach throughout the allocations period so that by 2023-24 we assume a population of 992,432, equivalent to an average growth of 0.50% per annum over the period.

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