NHS Western Isles
budget announced

NHS Western Isles budget announced

NHS Western Isles’s allocation for 2010-11 will be £58.1m, an above inflation increase of 2.55 per cent, Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon announced today.

Revenue funding for NHS Boards will rise by 2.7 per cent to a record £8.464bn.

The extra money will prioritise spending on frontline services for patients across the country.

Each territorial board will receive, as a minimum, an above inflation uplift of 2.55 per cent while some boards (NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Grampian, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Lothian and NHS Orkney) will receive higher increases to take account of health needs with regard to changes in population, and deprivation levels.

NHS Special Boards, like the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS 24, will receive an increase of 2.15 per cent.

Ms Sturgeon said: ‘This above inflation increase in revenue funding to NHS Western Isles in these difficult economic times, underlines this Government’s unshakeable commitment to our publicly-funded mutual health service.

‘It means health boards will have the resources they need to progress their plans and ensure that patients continue to be at the heart of the NHS.’