Urinary Tract Infections

(asked on 21st November 2018) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 29th November 2018

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.

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