These accounts consolidate the financial information within the Departmental Accounting Boundary which includes the parent Department of Health (DH), its on-Vote Executive Agencies, and other NHS bodies funded directly by the Department.
NHS Estates, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, NHS Trusts and the Department's Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies are excluded from the consolidation.
NHS Trusts and those Special Health Authorities that receive their funding from 'trading' activities, e.g. National Blood Authority and NHS Logistics Authority, produce income and expenditure accounts within Resource Budgeting but are outside of the Resource Accounting Boundary.
Annex A provides a comprehensive list of the health bodies which are inside and outside of the Resource Accounting Boundary.
More information on entities within the departmental family can be found in the annual reports and accounts of the Executive Agencies or in the individual and summarised accounts of NHS Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts which are published separately.
The resource accounts may be downloaded in full, or in individual parts, or ordered from The Stationery Office.
Contact details for obtaining hard-copy DH publications.

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