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Nutrition: Health Services

Volume 473: debated on Wednesday 12 March 2008

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Mr. Stephen O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average cost was of treating a patient for a disorder of nutrition as an (a) in-patient and (b) out-patient in each year since 2004-05. (189473)

Mr. Bradshaw

The average cost of treating a patient for a disorder of nutrition as an in-patient in each year since 2004-05 is provided in the following table. The information is not available in the format requested for out-patients.

Average cost of treating an inpatient1 for a disorder of nutrition from reference costs

£

Total cost

Actual FCEs2

Average unit cost

2004-053

10,220,000

6,920

1,480

2005-063

9,918,000

6,770

1,470

2006-074,5

10,713,000

8,990

1,190

1 Inpatient episodes include elective, non-elective and day cases.

2 FCE is finished consultant episode.

3 Data for 2004-05 and 2005-06 were collected based on Healthcare Resource Group (HRG) version 3.5.

4 Data for 2006-07 were collected based on HRG version 4.

5 The figures above show a decrease in the average unit cost in 2006-07 compared to previous years. This is due to an increase in the number of recorded day cases in 2006-07, resulting in a lower average cost.