Over the 2014 MTEF national health spending will increase at a faster rate compared to provincial health spending. Annual growth in government's overall expenditure on health will average 7.0 per cent in the medium term while growth innational government's health allocations will average over 16 per cent in the medium term. This is as a result of the centralisation of specific functions and the fact that the principal grant funding the National Health Insurance programme is spent by the national department. The National Health department's white papers on the NHI and the National Treasury's financing paper on NHI have been completed and will be tabled in due course.