FOI Ref: 0031FOI2021

15th July 2020

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information

We are pleased to respond to your request for information and our response is set out below:

Request/ Response

I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information:

• How much have you been allocated by the £1.3bn fund to support faster patient discharges from hospital during the covid-19 pandemic?

A fixed amount was not allocated by NHSE to individual CCGs as part of the CCG financial regime. Funding is based upon reimbursement of actual costs incurred to enable Hospital Discharge Planning during the pandemic.  An allocation for March – May at this point in line with figures stated in Question 2

• How much have you spent of your allocation from the £1.3bn covid-19 discharge fund?

To May NHS Sheffield CCG and Sheffield City Council have incurred costs of £2.956m which the CCG has received an allocation for.

• How much has your local authority contributed towards the £1.3bn covid-19 discharge fund?

Discussions are on-going to confirm the final amount to be included in the funding pool. Recent guidance changes and additional funding streams being released have required recalculation of the absolute values included. The principles of which budgetary areas and categories of spend to be included have been agreed within the Joint Commissioning Management structure in place between both organisations. Final values are planned to be included within the S75 contact when signed in early July.

• How many care homes did you provide oxygen to as a result of covid-19 outbreaks between:

1. a) March 1st to April 15th
2. b) April 15th to June 16th

The CCG does not provide oxygen to care homes. The CCG has a contract with a provider for oxygen and this is distributed on a named patient basis not specifically to care homes.

• How many covid-19 outbreaks have there been in care homes in your area from March 1, 2020 to date?

For the period 1^st March to 7^th July 2020 there have been 63 outbreaks.