Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of heart failure to (a) the NHS and (b) Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group in each of the last three years.

This information is not available in the format requested.

Such information as is available is shown in the table below.

The data in the table is for adults only and is only for the inpatient activity related to their care. It does not include any potential costs incurred for follow-up treatments such as rehabilitation or future outpatient appointments. Additionally, the data available is for the whole of the National Health Service in England and is not broken down by clinical commissioning group.

The data source for the table is from reference costs, which are the average unit costs to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by healthcare resource group, which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use common levels of healthcare resource.

The table below shows the total cost, in millions, to the NHS of inpatient stays for heart failure from 2013-14 to 2015-16.

Source: Department of Health Reference Costs.