Healthcare expenditure

STO-REC-STATH4VECDT1 Official
292 billionGBP
estimate

United Kingdom · 2023

Healthcare expenditure in United Kingdom totalled 292 billion GBP in 2023 (ONS).

Original source
Publisher
ONS
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
Spotlight: Healthcare expenditure, UK Health Accounts: 2022 and 2023
Retrieved
16 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

Our provisional estimates are that UK healthcare expenditure was around £292 billion in 2023; these are based on more timely but less comprehensive data sources than preceding years.

Office for National Statistics, Health care system · Spotlight: Healthcare expenditure, UK Health Accounts: 2022 and 2023
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APA
Office for National Statistics. (2023). Health care system. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H4VECD20Q1P73B91KZC815GAHH
MLA
Office for National Statistics. "Health care system." 2023, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H4VECD20Q1P73B91KZC815GAHH.
Chicago
Office for National Statistics. "Health care system." 2023. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H4VECD20Q1P73B91KZC815GAHH.
BibTeX
@misc{ons2023healthcare15gahh, author = {{Office for National Statistics}}, title = {Health care system}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_H4VECD20Q1P73B91KZC815GAHH}, note = {Original source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

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Primary Source

Publisher
Office for National Statistics · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
Health care system
Type
Press release
Published
Locator
Spotlight: Healthcare expenditure, UK Health Accounts: 2022 and 2023
Retrieved
16 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
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Verification & Integrity

Audit status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
17 September 2026
Last revision
17 September 2026
Archival URI
/stat/stat_H4VECD20Q1P73B91KZC815GAHH