Hospital Beds: Costs

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 1 March 2023.

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Photo of Liz Kendall Liz Kendall Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the unit cost per day for an NHS bed is.

Photo of Will Quince Will Quince Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The following table shows the average cost of activity (days) in the National Health Service. This includes elective and non-elective activity and all types of beds, such as high dependency and standard ward beds.

Financial Year

Count of Activity (Days)

Cost

Average/Day

20/21

24,378,064

£25,160,402,689.92

£1,032.09

The cost per bed day includes diagnosis and treatment costs so will vary depending on the case-mix of activity in any one year. Analysis from 2020/21 shows the cost per day to maintain a patient in an acute clinical setting excluding diagnosis and treatment costs is £344.60.

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