Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on unplanned admissions to hospital for patients with urinary tract infection in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
The data is not collected in the format requested.
The following table shows the estimated total cost for non-elective admissions for kidney or urinary tract infection:
Year | Estimated total cost (£ millions) |
2015-16 | £522.0 |
2016-17 | £530.8 |
2017-18 | £386.1 |
The costs for admissions to hospital for patients with blocked urinary catheters are not identifiable within reference costs.