FOI 2026/1578

1) The number of people assessed for continuing healthcare completed for each calendar year (1st January-31st December) from 2010 to 2025 who were:

a) granted funding

b) not granted funding

2) The number of assessments for continuing healthcare for each calendar year (1st January-31st December) from 2010 to 2025 which were completed in:

a) 28 days or less

b) 29 days to 182 days

c) 183 days or more

3) The number of people who died while waiting for continuing healthcare assessments to be completed for each calendar year (1st January-31st December) from 2010 to 2025.

1. Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care statistics are published by NHS England. In line with section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please find below a link to the website to assist you.

Statistics » Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care

2. Please refer to the link provided above.
3. NHS Greater Manchester do not record the data in the format requested, furthermore any data provided may not be accurate because this information is not always documented. Therefore, this section of your request is exempt by virtue of the following exemption, 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 Greater Manchester (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. It is estimated a search of each file would take approximately 15 mins and NHS GM holds hundreds of files across the 10 localities. Therefore, 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.

Although we cannot answer your request, we might be able to answer a refined request within the cost limit. Therefore, you may wish to restrict your request to consider specifying a specific locality and reducing the time period. However, as explained above the results may be inaccurate, because the information requested is not consistently recorded. Please also 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.

NHS GM complies with the Records Management Code of Practice (2021), which mandates that records must be managed consistently even after an organisation ceases to exist. When an NHS body is abolished, its records are usually transferred to a successor body or a designated “Place of Deposit”. For completeness, based on the timeline of dates you have requested, I can confirm that Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England were officially abolished on 1 April 2013. They were replaced by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England, which were statutorily abolished on 1 July 2022. From 1 July 2022, NHS GM has been in existence.