Health Services: Costs
(asked on 10th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average cost per night of care (a) in an acute hospital, (b) in a community hospital and (c) at home with visiting nursing support (i) for NHS England, (ii) in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB area and (iii) in the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust area.
NHS England don’t routinely collect expenditure data against the categories requested but we do for the following categories in the table below.
For (a) and (b) rather than share data by acute or community ‘hospital’, we have broken this down by acute or community ‘trust’ for the national and integrated care board (ICB) level requests, except for Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust which is acute only.
We are not able to provide the costs of (c), at home with visiting nurse support as we don’t collect this level of cost information.
The costs we have provided are fully absorbed, i.e. they include not only the medical care of the patients but also all other costs incurred in the trusts. The costs are taken from the National Cost Collection for 2023/24, the latest year for which data is currently available. This is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-national-cost-collection-data-publication/
To derive the average cost per bed day we have divided the total cost by the total length of stay for all Admitted Patient Care delivered in:
a. (i) – All acute NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts | Total Costs | Total length of stay for all Admitted Patient Care (days) | Average cost per day |
£45,409,702,984 | 52,414,320 | £866.36 | |
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a. (ii) – All acute trusts in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB area | Total Cost | Total length of stay for all Admitted Patient Care (days) | Average cost per day |
£1,426,531,392 | 1,815,334 | £785.82 | |
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a. (iii) - Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust (to note - this is specifically this trust, not the Portsmouth 'area') | Total Cost | Total length of stay for all Admitted Patient Care (days) | Average cost per day |
£451,003,686 | 675,437 | £667.72 | |
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b. (i) – All community NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts | Total Cost | Total length of stay for all Admitted Patient Care (days) | Average cost per day |
£481,873,973 | 842,354 | £572.06 | |
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b. (ii) – All community NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB area (to note - Solent NHS Trust are the only community trust in this ICB) | Total Cost | Total length of stay for all Admitted Patient Care (days) | Average cost per day |
£21,140,773 | 36,855 | £573.62 |