Where do we spend the money?
Budgeting and analysis of public expenditure
has historically been carried out on a subjective basis, namely by
expenditure categories such as pay costs, equipment, catering
provision costs and the like. Information on how health and
social care monies are spent is not always aligned easily to
assessment of need.
NHS
- NHS Peterborough’s total budget in 2010/11 was £355
million
- 24% of this was spent on doctors, dentists, opticians and
pharmacists
- 49% was spent on hospital and other patient services
- 19% was spent on community and adult social care services
- 8% was spent on other services
Adult social care
- The rate that people (adults) are supported to live
independently through social services was below the average of
similar councils
- Compared to unitary councils in England in 2009/10,
Peterborough was second highest in the proportion of spend on
residential care for people with physical disabilities
- In 2009/10 the overall percentage spend on physical
disabilities was low (6% of total social services spend) compared
to the average in unitary councils (10%)
- In 2009/10 there was a reduction in the percentage of physical
disabilities day and domiciliary care expenditure that was spent by
way of direct payments
Children and young people
- Education is the biggest single service area accounting for 49%
of the council’s net current expenditure for 2009-2010
- Combined social care (adults and children) is the second
biggest area of spend
- Planned expenditure for 2010-2011, the per-capita gross cost on
services for children and young people is £6,531 (England average
£6,520)
- Planned per-capita spend on the schools budget is £5,207
- Planned per capita spend on children’s social care is £568
Supporting documents
Programme Based Budgeting for Health and Social Care
(233KB, 15 pages)
Financial Benchmarking of Health Services
(136KB, 16 pages)
Adult Social Care P- Programme Level Analysis
(519KB, 3 pages)
Children and Young People - Benchmarking of Local Authority Planned Expenditure
(46KB, 8 pages)