Accident and Emergency Departments
(asked on 12th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on accident and emergency and urgent care services in each year since 2010.
The information is not available in the format requested.
The reference costs for accident and emergency and urgent care collected by healthcare resource groups (HRG) show an estimate of the total cost of accident and emergency (A&E) and urgent care for the last 6 years.
Total estimated cost of A&E and urgent care 2010-11 to 2015-16
Year | Total estimated cost (£ billions) |
2010-11 | 1.9 |
2011-12 | 2.0 |
2012-13 | 2.1 |
2013-14 | 2.3 |
2014-15 | 2.5 |
2015-16 | 2.7 |
Source: Reference costs, Department of Health
Notes:
- The following HRGs are included in the table:
VB01Z Any investigation with category 5 treatment
VB02Z Category 3 investigation with category 4 treatment
VB03Z Category 3 investigation with category 1-3 treatment
VB04Z Category 2 investigation with category 4 treatment
VB05Z Category 2 investigation with category 3 treatment
VB06Z Category 1 investigation with category 3-4 treatment
VB07Z Category 2 investigation with category 2 treatment
VB08Z Category 2 investigation with category 1 treatment
VB09Z Category 1 investigation with category 1-2 treatment
VB10Z Dental Care
VB11Z No investigation with no significant treatment
VBDOA1 Emergency and urgent care: Dead On Arrival
VB99Z2 Emergency Medicine, Patient Dead On Arrival
- Total costs are estimated from the unit costs and activity submitted in reference costs.
1 2010-11 only
2 2014-15 and 2015-16