FOI Ref: 0091FOI2021

9th October 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

1. Are you partnering with any other private or public sector organisations to deliver your Personal Health Budgets (PHBs)? If so, please provide the names of those organisations and a summary of the services they provide to the CCG

Chilypep currently deliver PHBs for a small number of children with issues relating to mental health on behalf of the CCG as part of an NHSE funded pilot.

Please see the response to Question 2.

2. Who is responsible for the delivery of the PHB targets and what are their contact details (name, email and phone number)?

For Continuing Healthcare PHBs - Personal Health Budget Advisor, sheccg.sheffieldchc@nhs.net. 0114 3051700

Note, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide wheelchair PHBs

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust provide mental health PHBs.

3. Who is responsible for the delivery of the Continuing Healthcare programme and what are their contact details (name, email and phone number)?

Head of Continuing Health Care (Service Development, Improvement and Business Delivery), sheccg.sheffieldchc@nhs.net , 0114 3051700

4. Who is responsible for the digital transformation within the CCG and what are their contact details (name, email and phone number)?

Deputy Director of IT, sheccg.sheffieldccg@nhs.net, 0114 3051000

5. Who is the current Director of Finance within the CCG and what are their contact details (name, email and phone number)?

Jackie Mills Director of Finance, sheccg.sheffieldccg@nhs.net, 0114 3051000

6. How many people in your CCG have been awarded a Continuing Healthcare budget and how many of these have taken up a PHB?

PHB’s are our default position and we currently have 125 PHBs and 225 Integrated PHB’s

7. What is the total annual spend on PHBs for your CCG, and how that spend breaks down by Direct Payment, 3^rd party managed and notional budgets?

Below is a table for 19/20 and 20/21.  Please note that 20/21 is a forecast cost.

Financial Year	Service	Spend (£)
2019/2020	PHB - Direct Payment	1,573,977
2019/2020	PHB - Notional Budget	4,164,153
2019/2020	PHB - Direct to Provider	26,582
	Total	5,764,711
2020/2021	PHB - Direct Payment	2,156,416
2020/2021	PHB - Notional Budget	4,906,190
2020/2021	PHB - Direct to Provider	11,585
Total	7,074,191

 

In the report published by NHS England (https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/personal-health-budgets-mandatory-data-collection-guidance-and-data/) you have declared 158 PHBs in the “other” category, can you please provide a breakdown of what types of PHBs these are? E.g. Wheelchair PHBs, end of life etc?

Other category (expanded)	No. of PHBs
Wheelchairs	9
Physical Disabilities	109
Palliative	40

 

8. What software, if any, is used to manage PHBs in your CCG?

QA Plus for recording of packages of care for CHC.

9. What is the total annual cost for this software and what licensing model is used, e.g. X% of budget/per user/fixed cost

Circa £10k per annum.

10. When is the contract for the PHB software up for renewal?

No specific PHB software used, QA plus to record financial cost of packages only.