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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

The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, states,

“21. (7) In deciding whether a person has a primary health need in accordance with paragraph (5)(b), a relevant body must consider whether the nursing or other health services required by that person are—

(a) where that person is, or is to be, accommodated in relevant premises, more than incidental or ancillary to the provision of accommodation which a social services authority is, or would be but for a person’s means, under a duty to provide; or

(b) of a nature beyond which a social services authority whose primary responsibility is to provide social services could be expected to provide,

and, if it decides that the nursing or other health services required do, when considered in their totality, fall within sub-paragraph (a) or (b), it must decide that that person has a primary health need.”

With reference to the above:

1. Against what criteria, (benchmark/scale/yardstick), are the nature, intensity, complexity and unpredictability of a person’s needs measured/assessed/weighed?

The information in relation to the individuals needs constitutes the eligibility. If those needs are health in nature or complex or intense or unpredictable. Each case is dealt with on an individual basis as directed by the National Framework there is no scale or yardstick

2. Please provide a copy of the document used to measure/assess/weigh a person’s needs.

This does not exist other than the National Framework and the CHC Operational Procedure that can be found here: https://www.sheffieldccg.nhs.uk/Your-Health/information-for-health-and-social-care-staff.htm