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NHS Board allocations for 2003-2004
07/02/2003
NHS Boards allocations will increase by an average of 7.8 per cent in the coming financial year, it was announced today.
A record £4.997 billion will be distributed between the 15 Boards throughout the country, an increase of £364.5 million or 7.8 per cent over the comparable budget for 2002-03.
Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm said:
"Today's increases represent a major investment in NHSScotland, with every NHS Board in the country receiving increases of between 7.4 and 8.9 per cent - well above the rate of inflation.
"These record additional resources will enable the NHS to further improve patient care and services, help pay for more nurses and doctors in our wards, and support the use of ever more advanced technology, treatment and drugs. Indeed, as we have continued to make clear, funding increases of this scale must be matched by further improvements in services to patients.
"We will be expecting NHS Boards - managers and clinicians - to use this money to deliver real change and improvements in the priority areas that matters most to patients - cancer treatment and care, tackling waiting, and driving up standards in hospital cleanliness and infection control. We will continue to measure progress against these priorities through our Performance Assessment Framework, and to hold NHS Boards to account.
"In addition, we will continue to monitor the financial performance of Boards, to ensure that they continue to balance their books - as any competent managers working in either the public or private sector should - so that they can invest in services that will bring maximum benefits to patients.
"Finally, Boards must continue to listen to the views of their patients and their staff - who are now represented through the new Board structures - and ensure that they fully involved in the planning, redesign and modernisation of services. Only through this approach - listening to staff, listening to patients, and monitoring performance against well-defined priorities, can we ensure that our on-going record investment in NHSScotland is translated into on-going improvements in care."
NHS Boards have been given a unified budget of £4.997338b. Details of each Boards' allocation is as follows
Argyll and Clyde - £431.117 million - 7.6 per cent increase
Ayrshire and Arran - £381.474 million - 8.5 per cent
Borders - £108.307 million - 8.6 per cent
Dumfries and Galloway - £157.518 million - 8.3 per cent
Fife - £327.832 million - 8.3 per cent
Forth Valley - £260.494 million - 8.3 per cent
Grampian - £455.118 million - 7.4 per cent
Greater Glasgow - £957.290 million - 7.4 per cent
Highland - £221.795 million - 8.9 per cent
Lanarkshire - £526.651 million - 7.8 per cent
Lothian - £684.068 million - 7.4 per cent
Orkney - £21.002 million - 7.4 per cent
Shetland - £25.336 million - 7.4 per cent
Tayside - £399.126 million - 7.4 per cent
Western Isles - £40.260 million - 7.4 per cent
In addition, Malcolm Chisholm announced the following allocations to Scotland's Special Health Boards
NHS Education for Scotland - £198.839 million - an increase of 7.4 per cent
Common Services Agency - £155.033 million - 7.4 per cent
Scottish Ambulance Service - £117.155 million - 7.4 per cent
NHS 24 (to support national roll out) - £31.561 million - 40.7 per cent
State Hospital - £22.734 million - 7.4 per cent
National Golden Jubilee Hospital - £16 million - 33.3 per cent
NHS Quality Scotland - £10.231 million - 7.4 per cent
Health Education Board for Scotland - £8.435 million - 7.4 per cent
Pending completion of the negotiation process on the new GP contract, funding for GP premises, computers and staff or the out of hours services have been excluded from Board allocations.
The Arbuthnott formula was introduced in the autumn of 2000. The formula uses information on population size and characteristics, with the following four elements used to determine each NHS Board's relative funding need:
- proportion of Scotland's population living in the NHS Board area
- age structure of the population and relative number of males and females
- level of deprivation
- proportion of the population living in remote and rural areas