Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services

(asked on 18th March 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the annual cost to the NHS of hospital admissions from preventable cardiovascular disease.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 2nd April 2025

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the second highest cause of premature death in England. It affects over 6.4 million people, causes one in four premature deaths, and 1.6 million disability adjusted life years.

According to the Kings Fund analysis, there were approximately one million hospital admissions for CVD in England in 2019/20, leading to 5.5 million bed days. During the 2023/24 financial year, there were 220,000 admissions for coronary heart disease and 100,000 admissions for stroke. CVD costs the National Health Service an estimated £10 billion, and the economy an estimated £24 billion a year.

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