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Cost of incontinence pads (FOI)

Cost of incontinence pads (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by States of Jersey and published on 23 July 2018.

Request

Please advise budget figure and actual year on year spend for the years 2012 to 2017 for the subsidy allowance on incontinence pads paid to elderly out patients made by family nursing service / health department.

Response

The table below represents the amount spent on continence products through the Subsidised Product Scheme (SPS), and elderly is defined as those over 65 years of age.

​Year​Total spend on continence through the SPS for over 65s
​2011

​£11,568.08

​2012

​£26,140.58 

​2013​Information is not held by age and therefore detail relating to the over 65s cannot be provided
​2014​Information is not held by age and therefore detail relating to the over 65s cannot be provided
​2015​£26,598.47 Please note that data is not available for January to April or December and therefore the figure represents the spend in the remainder of the year
​2016​£61,899.73 Please note that data is not available for January or March and therefore the figure represents the spend in the remainder of the year
​2017

​£86,219.44

 

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