Health Services and Social Services: Cornwall
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take account of the age profile of communities in Cornwall when allocating resources for health and social care in that area.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Integrated care boards (ICBs), including the Cornwall Isles of Scilly ICB, receive funding allocations from NHS England to pay for the services they commission. Most funding is allocated as a non-ringfenced budget, informed by a calculation of what would constitute a ‘fair share’ of funding based on a formula that takes account of population, age, need, deprivation and health inequalities considerations.
NHS England published a ‘Technical Guide to Allocation Formulae and Convergence’ that sets out the methodology; the formula takes into account age profiles in the modelling of the need for health care services by recognising that older populations typically have a higher need per capita. The guide is available at the following link:
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