NHS: Expenditure

(asked on 19th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the annual cost of the National Health Service.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 3rd July 2014

Total spending on the National Health Service in England (against the Department's Departmental Expenditure Limit) was around £105.2 billion in 2012-13. 2013-14 accounts figures will be available later this year.

Through the Department, the NHS is funded predominantly through general taxation.

NHS providers of health care - NHS trusts and foundation trusts (FTs) - are semi-autonomous organisations whose income derives predominantly from the provision of healthcare services.

NHS trusts and FTs also receive smaller levels of income from other sources, such as local authorities, private and overseas patients, education and training and injury costs recovery.

To illustrate the levels of income received from varying sources, the following table summarises the final income received in NHS trusts and FTs in 2012-13.

Provider Income as a

NHS trusts £million

FTs £million

Total £million

Total %

% of Total DEL

Revenue from Patient Care activities -

Commissioners

26,239

33,275

59,514

85.8%

56.6%

Local authorities

390

490

880

1.3%

0.8%

Private patients

127

351

479

0.7%

0.5%

Overseas patients

20

20

40

0.1%

0.0%

Injury costs recovery

104

105

209

0.3%

0.2%

Other

131

0

131

0.2%

0.1%

Other Non Trading Income

Education, training and research

1,665

2,081

3,746

5.4%

3.6%

Non-patient care services to other bodies

597

629

1,227

1.8%

1.2%

Charitable Contributions

55

174

230

0.3%

0.2%

Other

1,133

1,803

2,936

4.2%

2.8%

Total

30,461

38,929

69,390

100.0%

65.9%

Notes:

1. “Other” category includes income from subleasing property, bank interest and other small amounts from patients including transport services, parking income, etc.

2. Patient income from prescription, ophthalmic and dental charges are routed through primary care trusts (NHS England in 2013-14) and not included in the numbers reported in this table.

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