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Healthcare expenditure, UK Health Accounts: 2022 and 2023
What's in the bulletin?
- Our provisional estimates are that UK healthcare expenditure was around £292 billion in 2023; these are based on more timely but less comprehensive data sources than preceding years.
- Healthcare spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) decreased slightly to 10.9% in 2023 from 11.1% in 2022, as GDP growth exceeded healthcare spending growth.
- Total healthcare expenditure increased by 5.6% in nominal terms in 2023, but decreased by 1.4% after adjusting for inflation.
Experiences of NHS healthcare services in England: December 2024
What's in the bulletin?
- An estimated 95.7% of adults who tried to contact their GP practice in the last 28 days were successful; the percentage making contact on the same day has shown a small, consistent increase to 78.5% in Wave 4 (15 October to 6 November 2024) from 76.8% in Wave 1 (23 July to 15 August 2024).
- Of those who tried to contact their GP practice in the last 28 days, 73.8% perceived their overall experience as either "Very good" or "Good"; this has also increased consistently over the first four waves, from 67.4% in Wave 1.
- Of those given an appointment or a callback from a GP or healthcare professional in the last 28 days, 80.8% were either given a face-to-face appointment or asked if they wanted one.
Datasets related to Health care system
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UK Health Accounts
UK healthcare expenditure data by financing scheme, function and provider, and additional analyses produced to internationally standardised definitions.
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Public service productivity estimates: healthcare, UK
Public service healthcare growth rates and indices for inputs, quality and non-quality adjusted output and productivity, totals and components, for UK, 1995 to 2021
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Public service productivity estimates: healthcare, England
Public service healthcare growth rates and indices for inputs, quality and non-quality adjusted output and productivity, totals and components.
Publications related to Health care system
Statistical bulletins
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Healthcare expenditure, UK Health Accounts: 2023 and 2024
Healthcare expenditure statistics for 1997 to 2024, produced to the international definitions of the System of Health Accounts 2011.
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National Survey of Bereaved People (VOICES): England, 2015
Quality of care delivered in the last 3 months of life for adults who died in England.
Articles
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The healthcare workforce across the UK
A summary of the cross-UK comparability of official direct NHS employment statistics and other relevant data sources, including non-official data, on specific healthcare professionals across the UK.
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Accident and Emergency wait times across the UK
A summary of the cross-UK comparability of Accident and Emergency wait time statistics from January 2013 to September 2023.
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How does UK healthcare spending compare with other countries?
An analysis of UK healthcare spending relative to comparable countries, using data produced to the international definitions of the System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011).
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Public service productivity, healthcare, England
Estimates of productivity, output and inputs for public service healthcare in England.
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Public service productivity, healthcare, UK
Includes estimates of output, inputs and productivity for public service healthcare in the UK between 1995 and 2017.
Find, compare and visualise statistics about places within the United Kingdom.