NHS: Expenditure

(asked on 3rd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK healthcare expenditure which is spent on long-term care; and if he will make an assessment of the implications of that proportion for the emergency healthcare services.


Answered by
 Portrait
David Mowat
This question was answered on 8th November 2016

No specific estimate has been made of the proportion of United Kingdom healthcare expenditure which is spent on long-term care and no assessment can be made of the implications of that proportion for the emergency healthcare services. ‘Long term care’ could describe a variety of services, care types and settings, and also cover many different patient groups and no estimates are available regarding spend for such a broad and ranging definition. Furthermore, health is a devolved matter, and issues of long term care spend and associated pressures and implications on emergency healthcare services in the devolved administrations should be addressed accordingly.

NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review proposes a fundamental shift in the way urgent and emergency care services are provided, delivering more care closer to home where clinically appropriate. The review recommends new care models such as community-based services in Urgent Care Centres and more easily-accessible information will be provided so that patients can self-care. The National Health Service is also developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans through which different parts of the NHS and social care system are working together to provide more co-ordinated services to patients.

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