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Health Spending

Total Health Spending

What the UK spends on healthcare each year, public and private, across all four UK nations. This is broader than the NHS budget announced at a Budget, which is day-to-day funding for the health service in England. When it rises, more of the country's resources go to health; when it falls, health competes harder against every other call on money.

LATEST · 2024£320bn
GROWTH · YOY+7.8%
HIGH · 2024£320bn
LOW · 1997£66bn
0100200300400£ billion20002005201020152020
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Source: Office for National Statistics

Coverage: UK