The Programme Budgeting project provides a retrospective appraisal of NHS resources broken down into programmes, with a view to influencing and tracking future expenditure in those same programmes to achieve the greatest health improvement per pound spent in the NHS.
The Annual Population Value Reviews look at how commissioners can use Programme Budgeting to examine their current deployment of resources, and to make decisions on how their resources should be invested to achieve better value outcomes. Two Annual Population Value Reviews have been published, the first in February 2007 and the second in October 2008. The Annual Population Value Reviews can be found on the National Knowledge Service Website.