To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average cost to the NHS of (a) an elective and (b) a non-elective surgical episode (i) in England and (ii) in each primary care trust was in the latest year for which figures are available.
Average unit cost data for a wide range of procedures is submitted to the Department by providers of national health service services (acute trusts and primary care trust (PCT) provider arms) through the annual reference cost collection. 2008-09 is the most recent year for which reference cost data have been published.
It is not possible to separately identify average unit cost data for "surgical episodes".
2008-09 average unit cost data for elective and non-elective in-patient procedures reported by acute trusts and PCT provider arms are shown in the following table.
£ | ||
Unit cost (elective in-patient) | Unit cost (non-elective in-patient) | |
All acute trusts and PCT provider arms | 2,809 | 1,458 |
Source: Figures calculated from schedule 4 (NHS trusts and PCTs combined) of the national schedules of reference costs for the financial year 2008-09 published at: www.dh.gov.uk/nhscosting |
2008-09 average unit cost data for elective and non-elective in-patient procedures reported by individual PCT provider arms are shown in the following table.
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Organisation name | Unit cost (elective in-patient) | Unit cost (non-elective in-patient) |
Berkshire West PCT | 2,102 | 4,297 |
Buckinghamshire PCT | 7,207 | 6,901 |
Cambridgeshire PCT | 1,318 | 908 |
Camden PCT | 3,974 | - |
County Durham PCT | 1,924 | 2,172 |
Cumbria Teaching PCT | 2,924 | 4,370 |
Darlington PCT | 3,367 | 2,956 |
Derbyshire County PCT | 3,904 | 5,293 |
Devon PCT | - | 989 |
Dorset PCT | 1,332 | 5,353 |
East Riding of Yorkshire PCT | - | 5,289 |
Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT | 12,354 | 4,732 |
Gloucestershire PCT | 3,007 | 1,702 |
Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT | 4,877 | - |
Hampshire PCT | 4,362 | 4,500 |
Isle of Wight NHS PCT | 3,120 | 1,685 |
North Somerset PCT | 4,178 | 3,267 |
North Staffordshire PCT | 6,737 | - |
Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT | 6,476 | 6,476 |
Redcar and Cleveland PCT | - | 4,798 |
Shropshire County PCT | 779 | 231 |
Somerset PCT | - | 3,082 |
South Staffordshire PCT | 7,003 | 3,073 |
Stoke on Trent PCT | 4,409 | 3,761 |
Torbay Care Trust | 5,901 | 235 |
Tower Hamlets PCT | 2,560 | - |
Wiltshire PCT | - | 1,764 |
Worcestershire PCT | 735 | 11,395 |
Note: The above table lists just those PCT provider arms for which activity and cost data were reported. Source: Figures calculated from schedule 4 (NHS Trusts and PCTs combined) of the national schedules of reference costs for the financial year 2008-09 published at: www.dh.gov.uk/nhscosting |
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