Total Cost of care for Diabetes in England - 2017

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Dear NHS England,

Could you please tell me the total cost of care for those with Diabetes in England in 2017, and the number of patients this covered?

Yours faithfully,

Ms McCaffrey

CONTACTUS, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

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FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

Dear Ms McCaffrey,

 

Thank you for your communications dated 5 April and 6 April. Please note
that the FOI Act allows us to aggregate requests from the same applicant
which are deemed to be for “the same or similar information”. As such, we
are aggregating your requests and they will be responded to under the
reference of FOI-056119

 

NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Act 2000. As such, please be assured that your
request is being dealt with under the terms of the FOI Act and will be
answered within twenty working days.

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Health and high quality care for all, now and for future generations

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FOI, England (NHS ENGLAND), NHS England

Dear Ms McCaffrey,

 

Re:      Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI-056119)

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) requests dated 5 and 6
April 2018.

 

Your exact request was:-

 

“Request 1

 

Could you kindly provide the total budget for Cystic Fibrosis Care in
England.

Could you specify the areas this covers, and how the allocation is broken
down: For example;

Outpatient Care (regular clinic visits, home services, annual review
costs)
Hospital admissions
Inpatient Prescription costs
Outpatient Prescriptions costs 

 

Request 2

 

Could you please tell me the total cost of care for those with Breast
Cancer in England in 2017, and the number of patients this covered?

Request 3

 

Could you please tell me the total cost of care for those with Diabetes in
England in 2017, and the number of patients this covered?

 

Request 4

Could you please tell me the total cost of care for those with Sickle Cell
Disease in England in 2017, and the number of patients this covered?

 

Request 5

 

Could you please tell me the total cost of care for those with Downs
Syndrome in England in 2017, and the number of patients this covered?

 

Request 6

 

Could you please tell me the total cost of care for those with Cerebral
Palsy in England in 2017, and the number of patients this covered?”

 

Please note that section 12(5)a of the FOI fees regulations state that two
or more requests to a public authority from one person can be aggregated
for the purposes of calculating costs if they are for the same or similar
information.  The fees regulations are available at the following link:

 

o [1]http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/...

 

Information on aggregating requests is also set out in section 12(4)a of
the FOI Act which states that:

 

“Where two or more requests for information are made to a public authority
by one person the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is
to be taken to be the total cost of complying with all of them.”

 

On this basis, we are aggregating all your requests for the purposes of
determining whether or not disproportionate cost would be involved in
answering them, as we deem the requests for “the same or similar
information”.

 

NHS England does not hold recorded information in relation to this
request.

 

It may help if we explain that the NHS in England is not a single
organisation but is made up of a range of organisations such as Hospitals,
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Ambulance Trusts. NHS England is
responsible for commissioning primary care services such as GP and dental
surgeries, as well as some specialised secondary care services. Therefore,
any recorded information NHS England may be able to provide in response to
an FOI request will generally relate to the services NHS England
commissions. For information on commissioned services and the types of
information NHS England holds can be found on our [2]website and
[3]publication scheme. For further information on the NHS, its structure
and other NHS organisations please refer to NHS Choices [4]here.

 

As such, it is not possible to answer this request accurately.

 

You may find it useful to contact charities such as ‘Diabetes’ who may
have some helpful statistics:

 

·         [5]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/cost-of-diabe...

 

We hope this information is helpful. However, if you are dissatisfied, you
have the right to ask for an internal review. This should be requested in
writing within two months of the date of this letter. Your correspondence
should be labelled “Internal Review” and should outline your concerns
and/or the area(s) you would like the review to consider. Internal Review
requests should be sent to:

 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Email: [6][NHS England request email]

 

Please quote the reference number FOI-056119 in any future communications.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can be contacted at:

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Email: [7][email address]  

Website: [8]www.ico.org.uk

 

Please note there is no charge for making an appeal.

 

Please be aware that in line with the Information Commissioner’s directive
on the disclosure of information under the FOI Act, your request will be
anonymised and published on our website as part of our disclosure log.

 

Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a
central mailbox. To communicate with NHS England regarding Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests, enquiries or complaints we ask these are sent
directly to NHS England’s customer contact centre. This is to ensure all
communications are progressed correctly. Their postal address, telephone
number and email details are as follows:- PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT;
0300 3 11 22 33, [9][NHS England request email].

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Tel: 0300 311 22 33

Email: [NHS England request email]

 

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