Health Funding

National Health Service Funding

The NHS receives a particular type of funding known as revenue allocations. This is money we give to Local Health Boards and the Health Commission for Wales to cover the day-to-day running costs of the National Health Service (NHS) in Wales during each Financial Year.

The money is used for:

• the salaries of all NHS employees in Wales, including hospital doctors, nurses, support staff, ambulance staff and administrative staff who work in the local health boards and NHS trusts
• the costs of drugs, dressings, and other clinical supplies used for patient care in hospital and in the community
• the costs of cleaning, heating, and lighting hospitals and their general maintenance
• the petrol costs of ambulances and other NHS vehicles
• the payments made to general practitioners to run their practices 
• the costs of drugs prescribed by general practitioners 
• the payments made to local chemists for dispensing NHS drugs.