A breakdown of the planned Department of Health and NHS England budgets to 2020/21

Over the next five years there will be a slight shift in funding towards NHS England and away from DH’s other funding duties - entities such as Public Health England, Health Education England and Local Governments.

Within the NHS England budget there will be a relatively large increase to the Specialised Services budget of 5% per year on average, while funding for CCGs and Primary Care (the other two major areas) will grow at 1.0% and 1.6% a year respectively.

As we have heard in the news recently, the largest increase in spending over the period will come in the next year, with 35% of the total budgetary increase coming in 2016/17. This “front loading” is in order to promote much needed efficiency savings and has been welcomed by Simon Stevens, NHS England’s chief executive.

Data sources:

• NHS England Board Paper Item 4: Allocation of resources to NHS England and the commissioning sector for 2016/17 to 2020/21
   
• NHS England Annual Account 2013/14
   
• NHS England Consultation on Specialised Services Specifications and Commissioning Policies 2013/14: Summary and Response from NHS England