Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average daily cost is of keeping a patient in an intensive care unit.

The information is shown in the following table. It is from reference costs, which are the average unit costs to National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by healthcare resource groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume similar levels of healthcare resource. HRGs for critical care, which are organised into neonatal, paediatric and adult critical care, represent the daily cost of the part of the patient’s stay that requires care in a designated critical care bed. Adult critical care is further differentiated into burns, spinal injuries, and all other critical care units. The HRGs cover critical care areas, such as an intensive therapy unit or high dependency unit, but may include temporary, non-standard locations.

Average daily cost of critical care in England, 2012-13:

Source: Reference costs, Department of Health