The budget included new allocations of R97.6 million for 2012/13, R618.4 million for 2013/14 and R1.9 billion for 2014/15. The allocations were divided as follows:
. Costs associated with annual wage increases (3 million per annum for the Medical Research Council and 10 million per annum for the Department of Health).
. R100 million, R150 million and R200 million to nursing colleges to plan and coordinate the upgrading, recapitalising and maintaining nursing colleges following the infrastructure audit.
. Eight hundred and thirty four million for the HIV and AIDS conditional grant for the rapidly growing treatment programme (lower threshold Cd4 count of 350) and to strengthen prevention programmes.
. One hundred and eighty nine million, R231 million and R216 million increases for effects of wage increases in National Treasury Services Grant (NTSG).