PCT — funding

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Funding for PCTs

Health was the government’s biggest spending area in the Chancellor’s 2004 UK comprehensive spending review and this major funding boost will take investment in the NHS from £69bn in 2004/05 to £92bn by 2007/08 — a year on year rise of 7.1 per cent. PCTs also received their first ever direct allocation of cash in 2004 but a new funding formula means that the cash is being redistributed with some winners and some losers. None of the new money will be ring-fenced and the government is clear that the new growth money is most definitely to pay for all new drugs.

Improvement, expansion and reform

In the priorities and planning framework (PPF) for 2003-06 — Improvement, expansion and reform: the next three years — a new system of three year planning and allocations was introduced. All local plans are now supposed to build to local delivery plans (LDPs) covering SHA areas but really based on PCT level plans.