FOI 2025/1394

Under the FOI act, please supply the following data separately for each of 2022-23, 23-24 and 24-25:
1. The number of a) adults and b) the total annual cost paid by your ICB for adults who were eligible for MHA s117 provision and in receipt of a ICB-funded (or jointly funded with the LA) package of care divided by the following primary diagnosis: mental health; learning disabilities and/or autism; dementia.
2, The number of a) adults b) occupied bed days and c) total annual cost paid by your ICB for specialist hospital placements by the following primary need: mental health, learning disabilities and/or autism, and dementia
[Explanatory note: specialist hospital placements are beds where ICB is a responsible commissioner, and defined as: ‘locked rehabilitation’ placements or wards, or level 1 or level 2 rehab inpatient settings; non-local NHS rehabilitation wards classed as community, complex, high dependency, long stay, complex care; high-cost specialist placements; high dependency wards; personality disorder units (non-specialised commissioning)]
3. The number of a) adults and b) total annual cost for your ICB for adults eligible for continuing healthcare provision and in receipt of a paid package of care by the following primary diagnosis: mental health, learning disabilities and/or autism; dementia
4. The total annual budget for your ICB. If already published, please provide a link to the published budget figures.
5. The annual budget for your mental health, learning disabilities and/or autism, and dementia programmes. If already published, please provide a link to the published budget figures.
6. What is your ICB MH weighted population size for 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25?
[Overall note: The information requested applies to all primary need categories, not just those that were included in core MHIS. Please include LDA and dementia information as well.]

Questions 1-3.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), this section of your request is exempt by virtue of the following exemption, Section 12(1). Section 12. — (1) Section 1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

Due to the volume and complexity of the data involved, it would require a disproportionate amount of time and resources to locate extract and collate the data, and therefore, on this occasion it is with regret NHS GM are not able to process this section of your request further.

Section 12(1)

Section 12(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

The Freedom of Information Act allows Public Authorities to decline to answer FOI requests when we estimate it would cost us more than £450 (equivalent to 18 hours, calculated at £25 per hour) to identify, locate, extract, and then provide the information that has been asked for.

NHS GM consists of the 10 Greater Manchester localities, Bolton, Bury, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Manchester, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan (former Clinical Commissioning Groups), and therefore documents are held on various data bases. As such a manual search of records would be required and it is estimated each search would take 15 – 30 (minutes or hours) to complete with caseloads exceeding, circa 10,000.

Although we cannot answer your request, we might be able to answer a refined request within the cost limit. Therefore, you may wish to consider specifying a smaller geographical area or focus on a single service or data source.

Please be aware that we cannot guarantee at this stage that a refined request will fall within the cost limit, but NHS GM would do our upmost to assist you.

Questions 4 & 5.  Information relating to budgets is available by accessing the links provided below. The total budget for NHS GM is included within the Annual Accounts, within the Financial Performance Targets note, as the target for Revenue Resource use does not exceed the amount specified in Directions. The budgets for Mental Health services are shown within the Financial Review of the year.

2022/23 – Microsoft Word – QOP_ICB_Annual_Report_2022-23_FINAL

2023/24 – ICB Annual Report 2023-24

2024/25 – Annual Report Template 2024/25

6. This information is publicly available and can accessed via the link provided below:

NHS England » Supporting spreadsheets for allocations 2023/24 to 2024/25