THE organisation tasked with providing the best NHS care in Wyre Forest will benefit from additional funding next year.

NHS Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) will receive an extra £2,453 on what they were given for this year.

The increase in funds was announced alongside NHS England’s five-year forward view, which includes £1.98 billion of extra cash to be spread across the country.

In allocating the £1.98 billion, NHS England is passing £1.5 billion to frontline health services including primary care, local clinical commissioning groups and specialised services.

For 2014/15 Wyre Forest received £126,430 of funding which will then increase to £128,883 for 2015/16.

The five-year "sustainable" plan also sets outs approaches to upgrading illness prevention, explains how £480 million of the extra funding - on top of the £1.5 billion - will be used, and details how the NHS will “become a world-leader in genomic medicine and testing and evaluating new ideas and techniques”.

Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said: “We are allocating extra cash for towns, cities and villages across England to help the local NHS meet the rising demands and changing needs of the patients we’re all here to serve.

“Frontline nurses, doctors and other staff are working incredibly hard – including over this holiday period - but with a growing population and an ageing population it’s clear the health service can’t just keep running to catch up.”

The plan also marks the first time annual planning guidance has been jointly produced for the entire NHS by NHS England, Public Heath England, Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission and Health Education England.