Increased funding for NHS Boards

11th February 2012

Health boards across Scotland are to benefit from a share of £8,802 billion in revenue funding in 2012-13, it was announced today.

The additional funding represents a real terms increase of 2.9 per cent for all territorial boards.

Territorial boards will benefit from £7.761 billion, while special boards will receive £1.040 billion.

In addition, figures indicate that revenue funding for territorial health boards is likely to increase further by 3.3 per cent in 2013-14 and by 3.1 per cent in 2014-15.

£21.6 million will be invested to support the transfer of prison healthcare services to the NHS, and a further £10 million will help support the Adult Social Care Change Fund, which involves working with local authorities on the redesign of health and social care services.

This funding boost reflects the Scottish Government's pledge to protect health spending and to invest in frontline services.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said:"The Scottish Government is committed to protecting spending on health, and this budget allocation reflects an increase in real terms for every territorial health board across Scotland.

"Despite a difficult economic climate, we know how important it is that we continue to invest in frontline NHS services, and that is why the core budgets of all territorial health boards are increasing in real terms.

"Sustained investment in our national health service will ensure that boards continue to have the necessary resources to bring about real benefits to both patients and staff, and that we can deliver a first class service to patients across the country.

"This funding will help us continue to provide more sustainable, high quality and improving healthcare services. It will also support the integration of prison healthcare into the NHS, enable the Scottish Ambulance Service to implement the meal break settlement, and it will help us deliver the 18 week referral to treatment waiting times standard."

Related Information

NHS boards will benefit from £32 million funding to support movement towards NRAC funding parity.

The revenue allocations for NHS Boards are calculated using the National Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) formula. This takes into account each NHS Board's share according to a number of needs including population share, the age and sex breakdown of that population and level of deprivation.

Resource funding for health overall has increased by £249 million in 2012-13 delivering on the Scottish Government's commitment to pass on the Barnett consequentials in full to the NHS in Scotland.

All Boards will continue to deliver efficiency savings which will be reinvested in frontline services. A differential efficiency target has been set for Special Health Boards services not delivering direct patient care services to improve efficiency and support funding front-line services.

The Scottish Ambulance Service will benefit from an additional £6 million of funding this year, including an initial allowance to support implementation of the rest breaks agreement which was reached last month.

Highland will receive

Highland
496.0 - 2012/13
509.7 - 201314
522.6 - 2014/15