Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-02-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost to the NHS has been of supporting a patient on dialysis in each of the last three years.
Jane Ellison
The information is not available in the format requested.
National Health Service reference costs are the average unit costs to NHS hospital trusts of providing defined services to patients in a given year. Reference costs for acute care are published by healthcare resource group (HRG), which are standard groupings of similar treatments that use similar resources. The HRGs describe renal dialysis activity for the treatment of chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury separately. NHS reference costs data for each of the years requested can be found at the following links:
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