Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate his Department has made of the average cost to the NHS of an emergency admission for a lower respiratory tract infection.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 31st October 2017

In 2015-16, the average cost to the National Health Service of an emergency admission for a lower respiratory tract infection was £1,338.

In 2015-16, the average cost to the NHS of an emergency admission for asthma was £862.

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