The Welsh government has unveiled its draft budget for 2024/25, which includes an extra £450m for the NHS.
The Scottish government has unveiled its budget for 2024/45, which allocates more than £19.5bn to the nation’s NHS recovery, health and social care portfolio.
Higher than expected inflation has had an impact on revenue and capital budgets this year and this will carry into 2024/25 as an underlying pressure.
Local health boards in Wales have been allocated an extra £460m to help them meet ‘the most challenging financial pressure in recent history’.
The autumn statement was described as a ‘missed opportunity’ to improve NHS funding.
NHS representative bodies decried the chancellor’s autumn statement as a ‘missed opportunity’ with tax cuts paid for by a squeeze on public services.
Analysis from the Nuffield Trust ahead of the autumn statement warned that the NHS's financial situation is precarious as it tries to plug a £1.7bn hole in this year’s budget.
NHS England head Amanda Pritchard this week defended levels of NHS productivity, arguing the current measure did not fully reflect improvement.
Welsh health boards will receive £460m of additional allocations this year to meet financial pressures, but still need to make significant savings.
Systems in England will receive an £800m boost this year to support the costs of strikes, but will be expected to live within revised allocations.