Analysis by Nuffield Trust
This analysis by Sally Gainsbury and Sophie Julian analyses the deployment of health funding (excluding capital spend) in England between 2016-17 and 2022-23.
Growth in patient care spending has increased by 20% over this seven year period, but some sectors have seen substantial reductions.
The local authority public health grant has decreased, in real terms, by 21% over this period. Community healthcare has suffered relative decline. Primary care has maintained its share of spend. Acute, Mental Health and Ambulance services have seen the biggest rises in relative share of spend.
Health for Living strongly endorses their conclusion: “community health care, primary care and public health, which will need to sit at the heart of a sustainable, long-term vision for health and social care, where ill health prevention is prioritised and better long-term condition management both improves healthy life expectancy and reduces the need for emergency acute hospital care, which is one of the driving factors behind today’s high waiting lists.”
