The Department of Health (DH) has set up a National Programme Budget Project to develop a primary source of information, which can be used by all bodies, to give a greater understanding of NHS expenditure in terms of where it is spent.
For detailed information please see the Finance and Planning section of the Department of Health’s website, which has a ‘National Programme Budget project’ section with relevant links.
The National Programme Budget Project aims to map some £50bn of NHS expenditure into, currently, 23 programmes of care, examples of which include infectious diseases, cancer, blood disorders, mental health problems, coronary heart disease, problems of the skin, falls and problems due to trauma and injuries.
As part of this, the NHS Prescription Services provides information about all English PCTs’ prescribing expenditure, broken down amongst the 23 categories
Programme Budget Categories