DH National Programme Budget Reports

A cumulative monthly report for PCTs and NHS stakeholders to assist the financial management of the primary care prescribing budget in relation to the national programme budget categories.

"The overall remit of the National Programme Budget Project is to co-ordinate, manage and oversee all activities relating to the establishment of a methodology for analysing PCT spend that can be used:

• as a planning tool by PCTs to inform future investment decisions;
• and by stakeholders to identify where the NHS is investing its resources".

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The National Programme Budget Reports aims to identify the level of expenditure that has been spent on 23 programmes of care, examples of which include infectious diseases, cancer, blood disorders, mental health problems, coronary heart disease, problems of the skin, falls and problems due to trauma and injuries.

The National Programme Budget Reports identify the Programme Budget Categories and descriptions for the 23 programmes of care for which information is required and has determined the mapping of BNF chapters/sections/paragraphs to those categories. Some drugs from the BNF are not exclusively prescribed for one medical condition so the National Programme Budget Reports are based on a percentage split of prescribing over the relevant Programme Budget Categories for those drugs.

The PPD provides a cumulative monthly report, during the financial year, of prescribing costs presented as percentage figures against National Programme Budget Categories for each PCT.

Cumulative monthly reports are available two months after the dispensing month.

The reports can be accessed by all NHS.net users from the NHSBSA PPD website, www.ppa.nhs.uk.

The DH receive National level reports each month and an annual report when the March reports are available.