Hospital Beds: Costs
(asked on 17th February 2023) - 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 for an NHS bed is.
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.