NHS: Expenditure

(asked on 20th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent in the main categories of NHS commissioner spending as recorded centrally by NHS England for (a) acute, (b) mental Health, (c) community care, (d) continuing care and (e) primary care by clinical commissioning group in (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17 and (iii) 2017-18.


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Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 14th January 2019

The following table is a summary of the aggregated amount spent in the main categories of National Health Service commissioner spending, as recorded centrally by NHS England, for acute, mental health, community care, continuing care and primary care in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.

The data was provided by NHS England. NHS England do not hold clinical commissioning group (CCG) level spending data across all of these categories for all CCGs.

Type of Care

Amount Spent 2015-16

Amount Spent 2016-17

Amount Spent 2017-2018

Acute

£38,247 million

£40,107 million

£41,411 million

Mental health

£7,301 million

£7,627 million

£8,053 million

Community

£7,088 million

£7,115 million

£7,348 million

Continuing

£4,297 million

£4,582 million

£4,547 million

Primary

£12,124 million

£13,870 million

£16,474 million

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