PALLIATIVE CARE: EXPENDITURE
20th October 2015
Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on specialist palliative care in each financial year between 2000-01 and 2014-15.
Ben Gummer, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Quality:
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.
Cost of specialist palliative care reported in reference costs, 2006-07 to 2013-14
|
Estimated total cost (£ million) |
|
|
2006-07 |
25 |
|
2007-08 |
46 |
|
2008-09 |
56 |
|
2009-10 |
69 |
|
2010-11 |
83 |
|
2011-12 |
91 |
|
2012-13 |
101 |
|
2013-14 |
111 |
Source: Reference costs, Department of Health
Notes:
- Reference costs are the average unit cost to National Health Service hospital trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by healthcare resource group (HRG), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume similar levels of healthcare resource. HRG costs for specialist palliative care include care delivered by NHS hospital trusts under the principal clinical management of a specialist palliative care medicine consultant, either in a palliative care unit or in a designated palliative care programme. They do not include general palliative care, community specialist palliative care, or care delivered by voluntary sector and other accredited providers (including independent sector hospices).
- HRGs for specialist palliative care were introduced in 2006-07 reference costs. Information is not available for earlier years.
- Reference costs for 2014-15 will be published later in 2015.