Funding for the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD)
Dear NHS England,
Under the Freedom of Information Action, may I please request the total funding provided to the University of Bristol, UCLPartners, Anna Freud and QES to establish and run the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) from 1 April 2019 until June 2024, broken down by annual counts for each calendar year and organisation involved.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Georgia Richards
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Dear Georgia Richards ,
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Dear Georgia Richards,
We refer to your email of 30 July 2023 in which you requested information
under the Freedom of Information Act from NHS England. We apologise for
the delay in responding to your request.
Your request
You made the following request:
May I please request the total funding provided to the University of
Bristol, UCL Partners, Anna Freud and QES to establish and run the
National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) from 1 April 2019 until June
2024, broken down by annual counts for each calendar year and organisation
involved.
Decision
NHS England does not hold the information you have requested. We have
searched our databases but can find no contracts relating to the National
Child Mortality Database/NCMD. We have also searched by suppliers but
still could not find any contracts.
We have however, found the following contract on the contracts finder
website:
[1]https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov....
This suggests that the contract may have been solicited by Healthcare
Quality Improvement Partnership so we suggest that you may be best to
contact them for further information. Contact information can be found on
their website at: [2]https://www.hqip.org.uk/contact-us/
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information
NHS England
Dear NHS England,
I have previously written to HQIP, who have responded to say the NCMD is part of the NCAPOP (National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme) and funded by NHS England. So could you please reconsider the original request and relook for this information which NHS England should hold.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Georgia Richards
Dear Georgia Richards,
NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Act 2000. Your request is being dealt with under the
terms of the FOI Act and will be answered within twenty working days. Your
reference number is FOI-2409-2143716.
For further information regarding the FOI Act, please refer to the website
of the [1]Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). For further information
regarding NHS England, and the information we publish, please visit [2]our
website.
If you have any queries about this request or wish to contact us again,
please email [3][NHS England request email] and the message will be
forwarded appropriately. Please remember to quote the above reference
number in any future communications.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information
NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT
Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [4][NHS England request email]
Dear Georgia Richards,
We refer to your email of 15 September 2024 in which you requested
information under the Freedom of Information Act from NHS England.
Your request
You made the following request:
“Original request
May I please request the total funding provided to the University of
Bristol, UCL Partners, Anna Freud and QES to establish and run the
National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) from 1 April 2019 until June
2024, broken down by annual counts for each calendar year and organisation
involved.
**New request
I have previously written to HQIP, who have responded to say the NCMD is
part of the NCAPOP (National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme)
and funded by NHS England.
So could you please reconsider the original request and relook for this
information which NHS England should hold.”
Decision
NHS England holds the information you have requested and has decided to
release all of the information that it holds.
Total costs paid by HQIP to University of Bristol for the NCMD project
within the specified date ranges:
┌────────────┬───────────────┐
│ 2019-2020 │ 476,121.00 │
├────────────┼───────────────┤
│ 2020-2021 │ 526,664.05 │
├────────────┼───────────────┤
│ 2021-2022 │ 685,378.05 │
├────────────┼───────────────┤
│ 2022-2023 │ 679,480.50 │
├────────────┼───────────────┤
│ 2023-2024 │ 674,521.66 │
├────────────┼───────────────┤
│ 2024-2025 │ 523,028.14 │
├────────────┼───────────────┤
│ Total │ 3,565,193.40 │
└────────────┴───────────────┘
Costs paid to UCL Partners, Anna Freud and QES by University of Bristol
under the NCMD contract:
Response – please note that we have provided the figures by financial year
because this is how they were documented, budgeted for and paid.
┌──────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┐
│ Year │ UCL Partners │ Anna Freud │ QES │
├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┤
│ 1/4/2019-31/3/2020 │ £32,500 │ £0 │ £15,000 │
├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┤
│ 1/4/2020-31/3/2021 │ £32,500 │ £0 │ £64,770 │
├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┤
│ 1/4/2021-31/3/2022 │ £32,500 │ £0 │ £37,706 │
├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┤
│ 1/4/2022-31/3/2023 │ £41,900 │ £0 │ £67,687 │
├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┤
│ │ │ │ £61,651 │
│ 1/4/2023-31/3/2024 │ £35,352 │ £12,363 │ │
│ │ │ │ │
├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┤
│ 1/4/2024-31/6/2024 │ │ │ │
│ │ £8,292 │ £4,121 │ £14,910 │
│ (1st quarter only) │ │ │ │
└──────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┘
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information
NHS England
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