Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding clinical commissioning groups received to treat patients admitted to hospital as an unplanned admission with a 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.