Hospital Beds: Costs
(asked on 15th December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the unit cost per day is for NHS (a) elective, (b) non-elective, (c) high dependency and (d) standard ward beds.
The following table shows the bed day cost for elective and non-elective admissions, for 2024/25:
Financial year | Question | Point of delivery description | Bed day cost |
2024/25 | Elective | Elective Inpatient | £1,198 |
2024/25 | Non elective | Non Elective Long Stay | £791 |
2024/25 | Non elective | Non Elective Short Stay | £806 |
Source: National Cost Collection Patient Level Cost dataset for admitted patient care. Point of delivery, cost and length of stay data submitted to the dataset by National Health Service providers in the latest financial year, 2024/25.
NHS England does not hold the data to calculate the bed day cost for high dependency and standard ward beds.