First estimates of funding in new health structure
In the future, doctors, nurses and other health professionals could control almost £65 billion of NHS funding, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced today.
In addition, around £5.2 billion would be spent on public health services. Of this, at least £2.2 billion will go directly to local authorities to be spent on action to help their local communities stay as healthy as possible, and to reduce health inequalities.
The figures were developed by mapping primary care trust (PCT) spending in 2010/11 on to the future structure, subject to the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill, and uplifting them to 2012/13 levels. According to these estimates, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be responsible for around £65 billion of commissioning expenditure, and the NHS Commissioning Board for around £21 billion.
Further information is available on the Department of Health website.
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