NHS Leicester City holds the purse strings to buy in the city's public healthcare services, including hospital care and GPs. This graph shows how we spent our budget of more than £480m during 2008-2009.

Leicester is well provided by hospitals, principally the Leicester General, Leicester Royal Infirmary, and Glenfield Hospital. More than half of our annual budget goes on paying for hospital services.

The next largest areas of spending are on GPs and pharmacies, each of which accounts for around 10% of our annual spending. The year's costs include some additional spending on extra opening hours for GP patients.

We spend 9% of our budget on community health, including the work provided by Leicester City Community Health Services, such as district nursing, health visiting, paediatric medicine, school nursing, community matrons and a translation service.

Dentistry services took only 4% of the total, while ophthalmic services required just 1%.

The total costs of running our own organisation, including premises and wages, requires just 3% of our annual spending.