Program · Outcome 1: Improve transparency of public hospital funding in Australia by supporting the obligations and responsibilities of the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool through best practice administration of public hospital funding
Program 1.1: National Health Funding Pool Administration
The NHFB supports the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool (the Administrator) in paying and reporting Commonwealth, state and territory funding for public hospital services – responsible for $64 billion5 a year. The NHFB ensures payments from the National Health Funding Pool are made in accordance with directions from the responsible state or territory minister, and are in line with the NHRA and the Addendum to the NHRA.
National Health Funding Body, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 10 reported
$9.1m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$1.8m (+24.7%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $6.4m | $8.3m | +$1.8m +28.5% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 751 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $616k | $781k | +$165k +26.8% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 752 |
| Operating deficit (surplus) | departmental | $210k | $0 | −$210k −100.0% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 750 |