Diabetes
(asked on 21st May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the NHS of treating (a) type 1 diabetes and (b) type 2 diabetes in each of the next 10 years.
This information is not held centrally in the format requested. Diabetes is a disease which is treated in a number of settings and we are unable to supply all of the relevant information about resources dedicated to its treatment.
However, we have provided the following information showing costs that can be specifically linked with the treatment and procedures related to diabetes.
The following table shows admitted patient care activity and costs relating to diabetes treatments for the last five years. These include diabetes with hypoglycaemic disorders, diabetes with lower limb complications, paediatric diabetes mellitus and amputations for diabetes or arterial diseases. Admitted patient care costs are collected by Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use common levels of healthcare resource.
Year | Activity | Unit Cost | Total Cost |
2012-13 | 83,259 | £1,454 | £121,023,538 |
2013-14 | 87,928 | £1,689 | £148,482,529 |
2014-15 | 90,476 | £1,664 | £150,543,394 |
2015-16 | 96,045 | £1,705 | £163,781,529 |
2016-17 | 100,438 | £1,698 | £170,524,487 |
Source: NHS Improvement Reference Costs
The following table shows activity and costs for procedures carried out in an outpatient setting relating to treatment of diabetes in the last five years. These include diabetes with hypoglycaemic disorders and procedures relating to amputations for diabetes or arterial diseases. As with admitted patient care these costs are collected by HRG.
Year | Activity | Unit Cost | Total Cost |
2012-13 | 49 | £190 | £9,332 |
2013-14 | 8 | £127 | £1,019 |
2014-15 | 11 | £135 | £1,485 |
2015-16 | 29 | £114 | £3,292 |
2016-17 | 27 | £131 | £3,525 |
Source: NHS Improvement Reference Costs
The following table shows activity and costs for the last five years for diabetic nursing/liaison community contacts. These contacts are part of specialist nursing and are split by adult and child, and face to face and non-face to face contacts.
Year | Activity | Unit Cost | Total Cost |
2012-13 | 954,597 | £57 | £54,662,501 |
2013-14 | 1,029,199 | £57 | £58,775,899 |
2014-15 | 1,003,517 | £57 | £57,432,609 |
2015-16 | 1,050,930 | £62 | £65,277,436 |
2016-17 | 1,213,243 | £59 | £71,943,167 |
Source: NHS Improvement Reference Costs
The information provided in these tables is likely to be an underestimate of total spend on diabetes in all relevant settings.