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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: September 2025
What's in the bulletin?
- 73% of adults who had tried to contact their GP practice in the last 28 days, for any reason, described their overall experience as “good”, with those who were trying to contact their GP practice to get a prescription significantly more likely to describe their overall experience as “good” (77.8%), compared with those contacting their practice for any other reason.
- Nearly a quarter (22.8%) of adults on an NHS hospital waiting list had a “good” overall experience of waiting for their hospital appointment, and over 39% of adults on a waiting list rated the administration of their care as “good”.
- Of those who had a “poor” overall experience of waiting for their hospital appointment, after shorter waiting times (73.0%), 64.6% responded that more regular updates about their wait could improve their experience and 50.9% responded that confirmation of their place on a waiting list could improve their experience.
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.
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Experiences of NHS healthcare services in England
Experiences of local GP services, NHS treatment waiting lists, community health services, dentistry and pharmacy services, analysing data from the Health Insight Survey commissioned by NHS England. These are official statistics in development.
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.