Your money -
what we have and how we spend it

NHS Brighton and Hove will spend £429 million between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010 – around £815 for every minute of every day.

The table below shows how we use that money on your behalf.
You can also see an overview of what different services cost.

For every £100 in our budget:

£45 is spent on hospital services (around £37 of which goes to Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust)
£15 is spent on community health services (mostly with South Downs NHS Trust)
£11 is spent on primary health care (GPs, pharmacies, NHS dentistry, optometry)
£11 is spent on mental health and learning disability services
£9 is spent on medicines
£4 is spent on operational and management costs of NHS Brighton and Hove
£2 is spent on our public health service and health promotion
£2 is spent on ambulance services
£1 is spent on community and voluntary organisations that provide health and healthy living services for local people

Did you know?

the average cost of a hip replacement is £5,590.
each home visit by a district nurse costs around £52
each consultation with a GP costs around £32
one outpatient visit to a consultant psychiatrist costs £146
a year's supply of asthma inhalers costs £252
running our Patient Advice and Liaison Service costs £37 an hour
our ‘stop smoking’ service costs around £7,500 a week to run – but its health benefits are enormous
it costs £13,250 to train an ambulance paramedic
employing a mental health advocate through MIND costs around £83 a day