Brain: Injuries

(asked on 8th October 2018) - 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 annual cost to the public purse of people with an acquired brain injury.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 11th October 2018

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/

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