29 January 2014
Ms Joan Corrigan
[email: Joan Corrigan <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx]
Dear Ms Corrigan
RE: Freedom of Information (FOI) request – Our ref. FOI/14/012, Flexicare 2
I refer to your Freedom of Information request which was received by the Western
Health and Social Care Trust on 10 January 2014. Please see below a Trust
response which to your queries.
Flexicare 2
31/03/2012
The CERI Project (Flexicare 2)
began in January 2012. The
funding available to the Trust for
Funding available
January 2012 until September 2013
for services to
31/03/2013
for direct client services was
Service Users in the
£306,240. A further £109,620 was
WHSCT
Current Year
allocated at the end of September
2013/14 (to
for the period October 2013 to
date)
March 2014
31/03/2012
The funding utilised by the
Fermanagh area for the period
January 2012 until September 2013
Funding allocated to
was 43% of the overall allocated
Fermanagh for same 31/03/2013
budget and for the period October
time period
2013 to March 2014 is predicted to
Current Year
be 36% of the overall allocated
2013/14 (to
budget
date)
Freedom of Information (FOI) Office, Administration Building,
Altnagelvin Hospital site, Glenshane Road, Londonderry, BT47 6SB
e-mail: xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx
The eligibility criteria for access to
the CERI Project are:
Eligibility criteria for access to
(a) Aged 65+ years
Flexicare
(b) Live in a rural area within the
Western Health and Social Care
Trust catchment area.
31/03/2012
During the period January 2012 to
How many referrals
September 2013, 1281 clients
have been made to
31/03/2013
utilised the service
Flexicare in the
173 new clients were added during
WHSCT area?
Current Year
the period October to December
2013/14 (to
2013
date)
31/03/2012
In the Fermanagh area, during the
How many referrals
period January to September 2013,
have been made to
31/03/2013
747 clients utilised the service
Flexicare in
A further 53 clients were added
Fermanagh alone?
Current Year
during the period October to
2013/14 (to
December 2013
date)
I hope you are happy with this response. Please contact us at the below address if
you have any further queries.
Yours sincerely
Damian Houston
Information Governance Manager
Freedom of Information: If you are unhappy as to how this request has been handled, you have
access to the Trust’s FOI complaints procedure. You should write to FOI Office, Administration
Building,
Altnagelvin
Hospital
site,
Glenshane
Road,
Londonderry
BT47
6SB
(xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx) within two months of the date of this response and your
complaint will be considered and a response provided, usually within 20 working days of receipt. If
you remain unhappy, you can write to our Chief Executive, who will reconsider your complaint and
respond to you, again usually within 20 working days.
If, after receiving a response from the Chief Executive, you remain unhappy, you can refer your
complaint to the Information Commissioner. It is important to note that if you refer any matter to the
Information Commissioner, you wil need to show evidence of having gone through the Trust’s
complaints procedure to try to resolve the matter with the Trust in the first instance.
Freedom of Information (FOI) Office, Administration Building,
Altnagelvin Hospital site, Glenshane Road, Londonderry, BT47 6SB
e-mail: xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx