Current economic accounting health expenditure went from 116 billion in 2018 to 117.3 in 2019, an increase of 1.3 billion in one year.
This is what emerges from the data of the Report on the monitoring of Italian health expenditure 2020, published by the State General Accounting Office.
If we look at the period 2002-2019, the current health expenditure in economic accounting passes "from 78.977 million euros to 117.338 million euros
, with an increase in absolute value of 38,361 million and an average annual growth rate of 2.4% ". Among the important items that make it up, in addition to health personnel and subsidized assistance, regional deficits, pharmaceutical expenditure and that the health services purchased by citizens from their own pockets. The performance of our NHS, the document states, "ranks at the top in the European and world context, for the quality of services, as well as for fairness and universality access to care ". However, the Report states," maintaining the quality standards achieved makes it essential to address the issue of the sustainability of the costs of the public health system in the presence of funding levels conditioned by financial constraints "relating to the commitments undertaken by Italy in Europe. Strengthening the governance of the health system "is also an effective tool in dealing with expansionary trends of the demand for services "and experience, has shown" that there are margins of efficiency and rationalization of the system that can be usefully activated to cope with the effects of population aging ".