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Recommendation 12
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Acknowledged
The Department has allocated £14 billion to NHS England from 2022–23 to 2024–25 specifically to...
Conclusion
The Department has allocated £14 billion to NHS England from 2022–23 to 2024–25 specifically to recover elective and cancer care, comprising £8 billion of resource funding and £5.9 billion of capital funding, as described in the November 2021 Budget and Spending Review.24 The Autumn Statement in November 2022 then, separately, committed additional funding to the overall NHS budget due to financial pressures. NHSE’s planned resource limit for 2024–25 is now £166 billion: “£3.3 billion in each of the next 2 years to support the NHS in England in response to the significant financial pressures it faces, and [enable] rapid action to improve emergency, elective and primary care performance”.25
Government Response Summary
The government announced an additional £3.3 billion for each of 2023-24 and 2024-25 and at the 2021 Spending Review, £14 billion was made available to the NHS to support Elective Recovery and NHS England will write to the Committee before summer recess to set out further detail on how funding available for elective recovery will be spent.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
3.2 The government, as part of the Autumn Statement 2022, announced an additional £3.3billion for each of 2023-24 and 2024-25 to support the NHS in England. This additional funding will help the NHS to focus on delivery of its public commitments on Elective Recovery, following a challenging set of delivery conditions and higher-than-expected levels of inflation. 3.3 More broadly, at the 2021 Spending Review, £14 billion was made available to the NHS to support Elective Recovery. £8 billion of the £14 billion funding for elective recovery is revenue, allocated to local systems that develop plans for delivering local priorities that will support the NHS to meet the commitments made in the delivery plan, using NHSE issued operational planning guidance. The remaining £6 billion is capital to support longer-term investment in the NHS that will support productivity improvements and increase capacity. NHS England will write to the Committee before summer recess to set out further detail on how funding available for elective recovery will be spent, together with details of its evaluation plans and initiatives to improve productivity.