PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Kidneys: Transplant Surgery (24 May 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost to the NHS has been of providing a kidney transplant in (a) England and (b) Teesside in each year from 2010.

Asked by:
Anna Turley (Labour)

Answer

The information requested for Teeside is not available. However, such information as is available is shown in the table below and is from reference costs, which are the average unit cost to National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year. Reference costs are published annually, with most recently available data being for 2014-15.

Reference costs for acute care are published by healthcare resource group (HRG), which are standard groupings of similar treatments that use similar resources. The HRGs in the table below describe the average cost of providing a kidney transplant in a hospital setting.

Unit cost to NHS hospitals of providing a kidney transplant1 for England and Teesside2, 2010-11 to 2014-15

England

South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3

Pre-Transplant (£)

Transplant (£)

Post-Transplant (£)

Pre-Transplant (£)

Transplant (£)

Post-Transplant (£)

2010-11

947

16,228

381

N/A

N/A

N/A

2011-12

342

15,714

188

N/A

N/A

N/A

2012-13

406

15,774

260

115

N/A

120

2013-14

702

13,841

191

89

N/A

95

2014-15

400

12,398

211

76

N/A

116

Source: Reference costs, Department of Health

Notes:

  1. The following HRGs are included in the table:

2010-11 and 2011-12

LA01A Kidney Transplant 19 years and over from Cadaver non-Heart beating donor

LA01B Kidney Transplant 18 years and under from Cadaver non-Heart beating donor

LA02A Kidney Transplant 19 years and over from Cadaver Heart beating donor

LA02B Kidney Transplant 18 years and under from Cadaver Heart beating donor

LA03A Kidney Transplant 19 years and over from Live donor

LA03B Kidney Transplant 18 years and under from Live donor

LB46Z Live Donation of Kidney

LA10Z Live Kidney donor screening

LA11Z Kidney pre-transplantation work-up of live donor

LA12A Kidney pre-transplantation work-up of recipient 19 years and over

LA13A Examination for post-transplantation of Kidney of recipient 19 years and over

LA14Z Examination for post-transplantation of Kidney of live donor

2012-13 to 2014-15

LA01A Kidney Transplant 19 years and over from Cadaver non-Heart beating donor

LA01B Kidney Transplant 18 years and under from Cadaver non-Heart beating donor

LA02A Kidney Transplant 19 years and over from Cadaver Heart beating donor

LA02B Kidney Transplant 18 years and under from Cadaver Heart beating donor

LA03A Kidney Transplant 19 years and over from Live donor

LA03B Kidney Transplant 18 years and under from Live donor

LB46Z Live Donation of Kidney

LA10Z Live Kidney donor screening

LA11Z Kidney pre-transplantation work-up of live donor

LA12A Kidney pre-transplantation work-up of recipient 19 years and over

LA13A Examination for post-transplantation of Kidney of recipient 19 years and over

LA13B Examination for Post-Transplantation of Kidney of Recipient 18 years and under

LA14Z Examination for post-transplantation of Kidney of live donor

  1. In 1974 the County Borough of Teesside was abolished. The former historic county of Teesside is locally used to refer to the north east of England around the urban centre of Middlesbrough.

  1. In answering this question we used data for the two trusts within Teesside, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust had no data to answer this question, and from 2012-13 South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust began kidney transplant activity.

  1. For each HRG or other currency in the reference cost collection, NHS hospital trusts submit a unit cost and amount of activity undertaken.

Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
6 June 2016

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