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A Scottish Executive Review of Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy for Children and Speech and Language Therapy for Adults with Learning Disabilities and Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Appendix L Sources of funding for NHS OT, PT and SLT for children
Table 1: Sources of funding for NHS OT for children in Scotland
97.6% of OT posts providing a service to children in Scotland are funded by mainstream health funding. Six areas have posts funded from other sources.
In Borders 0.08 WTE post is funded by the Excellence Fund. In Fife 1.7 posts are funded by the education department. In Grampian 0.4 posts are funded by a private special school and in Greater Glasgow 0.4 posts are funded by Sure Start. In Lothian 0.9 posts are funded by a grant aided school. Finally, in the Western Isles - 100% of 1 WTE paediatric OT post is funded by health and approximately 45% of the 0.31 generic posts is funded by the Social Work Department.
In Argyll and Clyde some funding is provided by Capability Scotland. Whether this covers posts or travel only still needs to be clarified. A proportion of these posts is funded by the NHS Board. Borders also stated that equipment and training is funded through the Paediatric Endowment fund.
Table 2: Sources of funding for NHS PT for children in Scotland
Notes:
NHS Tayside - Data for Child Health services in Acute Trust only. Acute in-patient service and Primary Care Trust data were unavailable.
96% of PT posts providing a service to children in Scotland are funded by mainstream health funding. Only 4 of the 13 Health Board areas have posts that are funded by other means. In Argyll and Clyde 0.5 WTE PT post is funded under the Innovation Fund. In Fife 2 WTE posts are funded by the education department. In Lanarkshire 0.2 WTE posts are funded by the New Community Schools fund. In Lothian, 3.43 WTE posts are funded by the Royal Blind School and 1 WTE post is funded by Capability Scotland.
Table 3: Sources of funding for NHS SLT for children in Scotland
Notes:
Glasgow estimated that 60% of the service is funded by the education department.
Tayside figures include Ninewells Hospital and the Centre for Child Health within the acute trust. Figures from the PCT were not supplied.
Just over two-thirds of NHS SLT service for children across Scotland are funded by health (68%) and approximately one-third by education (31%). Only 1.6% are funded from other sources. However, these figures vary considerably from area to area. In Dumfries and Galloway as little as 11% of the service is funded by education, whereas as much as 91% is funded from this source in Shetland.
Sources of funding other than health and education include grants form Sure Start, the Excellence Fund, the Health Improvement Fund, the Innovation Fund, Changing Children's Services Fund as well as funding from independent schools, community schools, voluntary services and private contracts.
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