NHS MSCP Vanguard funding

The NHS has to work differently in order to provide good quality services for all within the current funding limits.

In different parts of England there are lots of different models being tried out to see which works best.  These are called Vanguards and are receiving extra funds to transform the health care systems locally.

I thought I would try to find out how much extra funding they were receiving.  It was a harder job than I thought.  In the end I used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the information from 14 Vanguard who were piloting one type of model.  The Multispecialty Community Provider (MSCP) model of care.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/new-care-models/community-sites/

It was difficult finding out who to approach for the financial information, sometimes I got it right first time but for others I had to go through several organisations before getting to the right person.

Vanguard	Population	Funding £ (2015/2016)
Calderdale Health & Social Care Economy	200,000	150,000
Erewash MSCP		No reply
Fylde Coast Local Health Economy	330,000	4,300,000
Modality (was Vitality)  (Birmingham)		No reply
West Wakefield Health & Wellbeing	153,000	2,829,000
Better Health & Care for Sunderland	284,000	2,305,000
Dudley MSCP	315,000	2,700,000
Whitstable Medical Practice	169,806	1,850,000
Stockport Together	300,000	3,900,000
Tower Hamlets Integrated Provider Partnership	284,000	2,990,000
Better Local Care (Hampshire)	220,000	6,960,000
West Cheshire Way	255,000	4,900,000
Lakeside Surgeries		No reply
Principia Partners in Health (Nottinghamshire)		Not received

There were 14 Vanguards and I received 11 responses.  

One Vanguard had only received a small initial payment and one had not received any funding at the time they responded and I excluded them from my analysis..

So for the remaining 9 Vanguards the funding varied from £31 a head to £8 a head.