In 1978 the cost of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom will rise, to an estimated record level of 8,000 million. Even when adjusted for the falling value of the pound this means that the NHS costs three times as much as when it was first established. However, public spen...
IVF babies cost NHS extra £60m a year.Reports the extra costs of caring for twins born as a result of in vitro fertilization. Association of multiple births with premature birth, low birth -weight babies and long-term disability; Cost per attempted conception.Ward...
The cost effectiveness of NHS physiotherapy support for occupational health (OH) services. BMC Musculoskeletal Disord 2012;13:29.Phillips C, Phillips R, Main C, Watson P, Davies S, Farr A, et al. The cost effectiveness of NHS physiotherapy support for occupational health (OH) services. BMC ...
The total cost of AS in the UK is estimated at 19016 per patient per year, calculated to include GP attendance, administration costs and hospital costs derived from routine data records, plus patient-reported non-NHS costs, out-of-pocket AS-related expenses, early retirement, absenteeism, ...
Pertussis incidence data from 2009 to 2018 were retrieved from the publication by Harrington et al. (Annex I, Table S1) [12]. Incidence was defined as event rate per 100 patients/year of follow-up. The rate of underreported data for each age group was referenced from a previously published...
As prevalence and transmission increased, targeting of high-risk specialties became the optimum strategy at the NHS willingness-to-pay threshold (£30 000/QALY). Switching from screening all admissions to only high-risk specialty admissions resulted in a mean reduction in total costs per year ...
In April 2014 the UK government launched the ‘NHS Visitor and Migrant Cost Recovery Programme Implementation Plan’ which set out a series of policy changes to recoup costs from ‘chargeable’ (largely non-UK born) patients. In England, approximately 75% of tuberculosis (TB) cases occur in pe...
We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of capsaicin 8% patch (QUTENZA™) versus pregabalin in patients with PNP from the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS) and Personal and Social Services in Scotland, UK. A decision-tree cost-effectiveness model was developed for non-diabetic patients...
Screening is estimated to have prevented 10.8 ruptured AAA and 8 deaths per year, gaining 51 life-years per year for the study population, and to have reduced the incidence of ruptured AAA by 64% (95% CI, 42%-77%). Each life-year gained during the first screening round cost $1107. ...
through a research-based service-specific costing exercise.Activity data on the use of hospital services of children by stage of HIV infection were collected from case-notes for 118 HIV antibody positive children, managed at St Mary's Hospital NHS Trust, London, 1 January 1986-31 December 1994...