Surgery: Costs
(asked on 22nd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost to the NHS was of a (a) hip replacement, (b) knee replacement, (c) cataract operation and (d) hernia operation in England in each year since 2013.
The information is shown in the following table.
Estimated average unit cost to National Health Service providers in 2014-15 to 2017-18
| Average unit cost per one finished consultant episode | |||
| 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Hip replacement | £6,793 | £7,090 | £7,032 | £7,313 |
Knee replacement | £5,944 | £6,253 | £6,181 | £6,315 |
Cataract operation | £747 | £805 | £811 | £803 |
Hernia operation | £2,193 | £2,331 | £2,308 | £2,500 |
Source: NHS Improvement Reference Costs