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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance he has given to health authorities on their allocation of resources to individual medical specialties. [160263] Mr. Denham: To enable health authorities to manage flexibly the totality of resources available to them, there is limited earmarking of funds within allocations. For 2001-02 the national health service plan implementation programme identified the following sums included in allocations with an intention that they be spent on the purpose for which they were allocated: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Priority £ million Cancer and coronary heart disease 450 Waiting times and access 423 Intermediate care and community equipment 188 Information management and technology 113 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. These sums reflect national estimates of investment needed to deliver targets and milestones in implementing the NHS plan. They are intended as a guide for local health communities in ensuring that their own plans will meet these targets and milestones. A copy of the NHS plan implementation programme will be placed in the Library.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

368 c205W; 160263

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Cancer Health services Finance ICT Heart diseases NHS Waiting lists

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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