In 1994/95, the total cost of the NHS was £32.0 billion in
England and £39.3 billion for the UK as a whole.
Made up of:
Latest figures 93/94
Hospital & Community Health Services current 20,701
Family Health Services 6,934
Hospital & Community Health Services capital 1,759
Central Health & Misc Services 720 Departmental Administration 305
Hospital and Community Breaks down as follows:
Latest figures 92/93
Acute 9,842
Admin 736
Learning Disability 1,077
0ther 1,345
Other Community 1,432
Mental Illness 2,350
Elderly 2,544
Maternity 1,005
All figures millions
In article <[log in to unmask]>, Jon Rogers
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>In article <[log in to unmask]>, Iain L M Hotchkies
><[log in to unmask]> writes
>>I read that the NHS costs 40 billion a year.
>
>Avon Health gets something like 400,000,000 - it is a larger than
>average HA, of which there are 98. Assuming some money is spent
>centrally, then 400,000,000 x 100 = 40,000,000,000, ie your first
>figure:
>
>>
>>Is that 4,000 million (4,000,000,000) or
>>
>>4 million million (4,000,000,000,000) ?
>>
>>Doctors are defrauding the NHS of 60m a year
>>(allegedly). I need to know whether this
>>represents 1.5% of the total budget or a mere
>>0.0015%.
>
>60 million is therefore 60 / 40,000 = 0.15%.
>
>60 million is never "mere". Where did the figure come from? If that
>was just GPs (30,000) that would be 2,000 UKP per GP! I would be
>surprised!!!
>
Ewan Davis
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