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Billion pound investment in patient care
04/02/2005
Scotland's NHS boards are to have budgets totalling £6
billion for 2005-06, an average increase of 7.6 per cent
over the 2004-05 allocation.
Health Minister Andy Kerr said the investment would help
the NHS in the drive to modernise services, delivering care
to patients where and when they need it, driving up
standards of service and driving down waiting times.
Mr Kerr continued:
"90 per cent of care takes place outside a traditional
hospital setting, through local nurses, physios, new
walk-in clinics and innovations like telemedicine.
"Patients expect that kind of personalised care, as
local as possible, as specialised as necessary and of the
highest quality.
"That has to be the core focus of what we do in the
health service -delivering that care better and faster than
at present.
"I want Boards across the country to use this investment
to drive forward that modernisation.
"I firmly believe that by addressing our challenges in
new ways we can transform the NHS. With this investment, we
can deliver care in better ways, and in doing so, we can
tackle long-standing problems like waiting times."
The revenue allocations for Each NHS board are
calculated using the Arbuthnott formula.
The formula takes account of the population in the NHS
board area, the age of the population, gender, level of
deprivation and the proportion of population living in
remote and rural areas.
The £6 billion of revenue allocation funding is
available to NHS boards for 2005-06 comprises £466 million
of extra money for 2005-06 over the comparable 2004-05
allocation.
Boards have been given a general allocation of
£6,010.502 million for 2005-06, an average increase over
the equivalent 2004-05 allocation of 7.6 per cent.
All NHS boards have received a standard increase of 7
per cent with those boards currently below their Arbuthnott
formula target allocation receiving more. :
NHS Boards/Allocations £m 2005-06/percentage
increase
Argyll & Clyde 514.426 7.50
Ayrshire & Arran 462.840 8.29
Borders 132.754 8.57
Dumfries & Galloway 192.270 8.57
Fife 399.619 8.65
Forth Valley 314.943 7.81
Grampian 547.910 7.00
Greater Glasgow 1,137.979 7.00
Highland 272.090 8.56
Lanarkshire 637.338 8.33
Lothian 812.864 7.00
Orkney 25.050 7.00
Shetland 29.779 7.00
Tayside 483.539 7.00
Western Isles 47.100 7.00
Total
6,010.502 7.60
The allocations for Special Health Boards for 2005-06
are as follows:
NHS Education for Scotland 289.157
7.00
NHS National Services Scotland 189.199 5.62
Scottish Ambulance Service 143.056 7.00
State Hospital 28.783
7.00
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland 11.744 5.62
National Waiting Time Centre 34.256
7.00
NHS Health Scotland 12.017
5.62
NHS24
45.141 5.62
Indicative allocations for NHS boards for 2006-07 have
been set at 6.75 per cent and 6 per cent in 2007-08.
The National Waiting Times Unit is to arrange a meeting
with each NHS board this month to agree milestones for
delivery of national waiting times targets for 2005.
NHS Education for Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance
Service have been notified of indicative allocation
increases of 6.75 per cent for 2006-07 and 6 per cent for
2007-08.
Other Special Health Boards have been notified that
allocation increases for 2006-07 and 2007-08 will be
sufficient to meet anticipated pay and price increases.