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 cost to the public purse of (a) diagnosing and (b) treating acquired and traumatic brain injuries in each of the last five years.
These data are not available in the format requested and no estimate has been made.
Reference costs are the mandatory collection of costs data from all National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts. Whilst there is a very wide coverage of services delivered across the NHS collected in reference costs, the diagnosis and treatment of acquired and traumatic brain injuries are excluded.
This is as per table 39 of the national cost collection guidance which can be found at the following link:
improvement.nhs.uk/resources/approved-costing-guidance-collections/