NHS: Finance

(asked on 30th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much (a) NHS England and (b) clinical commissioning groups spent in aggregate on (i) primary medical services, (ii) community health services, (iii) mental health services, (iv) acute health services, (v) specialised services and (vi) all health and care services in cash terms in each year since 2016-17; and how much is forecast to be spent in aggregate in each of those areas in the 2019-20 financial year.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 10th February 2020

The information is shown in the following table.

2016-17 £ billion

2017-18 £ billion

2018-19 £ billion

2019-20 £ billion

Specialised services

15.4

16.4

17.2

18.9

Primary medical care

9.1

9.4

9.7

10.5

Community services

7.3

7.4

7.5

8.0

Continuing Care

4.7

4.6

4.7

4.9

Clinical commissioning group (CCG) acute

40.1

41.4

42.9

45.3

CCG core mental health

7.6

8.1

8.5

9.2

Other

17.8

18.3

18.6

18.4

Total programme spend

102.0

105.5

109.1

115.2

Of which:

Payments to local authorities

3.1

3.3

3.5

3.4

Notes:

The small forecast reduction in other spend relates to technical changes in commissioning arrangements between NHS England and CCGs in respect of delegated primary care commissioning.

To present all figures on the same basis, the mental health figures presented here are collected in a different way than the mental health dashboard. The figures presented in the mental health dashboard are on a wider basis, and include mental health spend included in other budgets (for example, on mental health prescribing), and the specialised service line here includes spending on mental health that falls within specialised services.

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