Freedom of Information Request: 0752

• Any assessment made by the organisation of anticipated additional income in future financial years due to the NHS Long Term Plan; and

 The Long Term Plan (Jan 2019) contains a list of priorities setting out how the NHS will improve care over the next 10 years. It makes specific reference to £4.5m billion investment in primary and community services and a £2.3 billion additional funding for mental health services.  Both of these areas are largely outside the core healthcare services provided by the Trust. 

 It acknowledges there is £20.5 billion real terms additional NHS funding to help deal with the current NHS providers’ deficits, pressures from demographic changes and new priorities. For the first year of this new funding, draft national tariffs (prices for patient activity) have recently been released alongside new Control Totals (financial targets set for each NHS provider) and details regarding various NHS funding changes. The Trust is working to assess the impact of these changes for 2019/20 ahead of the submission of one year plans to the NHS regulators in April 2019

No assessment has been made as what (if any) additional income will flow to the Trust as a result of Long Term Plan. Later in 2019, NHS providers are required to work with local STP partners to develop a five year plan which shows how the NHS Long Term Plan priorities will be tackled across the region. Work to support this project may provide better insight on the anticipated future additional income.

 Any assessment made by the organisation of the impact of the market forces factor on funding in future financial years 

 An assessment has been made of the market forces factor (MFF) changes for 2019/20 only at present. This assessment shows an increase of £715,000 in terms of income for the Trust, this is the result of;

• National changes to MFF and
• Local changes i.e. a single combined new MFF for the Trust following the merger (April 2019) between University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.