Cost to Government of Incontinence Products

​Request 715145646

Cost to Government of Incontinence Products.

Please can you e-mail me a list of the spend per annum on continence products through the Subsidised Product Scheme, since the scheme began, to date.

If you have any other statistics relating to the changes in government spending in relation to incontinence, this would also be helpful.

Thank you very much.

Response

Annual expenditure on continence products through the Subsidised Product Scheme for the period from 2017 to 2024 is presented in the table below. Detailed information for years prior to 2017 is not available in a format which would enable equivalent figures of annual spend on products through the Scheme to be derived, therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Previous Freedom of Information responses have been published to www.gov.je which detail annual expenditure on continence products specifically for those over 65 years of age. These responses cover spending from 2011 to November 2022, and can be found at the following links:

09 December 2022 response:

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=6051​

23 July 2018 response:

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=2210​

The value of continence products purchased within Health and Care Jersey for use by the Department’s services total £148,849 for 2023 and 2024 combined.

Article applied

​Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​