Costs of cardiovascular disease in the UK in 2004
| Type of resource used | Unit of measurement | Units of resources consumed | Average unit cost (£) | Total cost (million £s) | Source (reference number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Future earnings discounted at 3.5%. | |||||
| Healthcare cost | |||||
| Primary care | Doctor consultations at clinic | 12542454 | 28.00 | 351.19 | 4, 15, 17 |
| Doctor consultations at home | 2493546 | 65.00 | 162.08 | 4, 15, 17 | |
| Nurse consultations at clinic | 7733878 | 9.00 | 69.60 | 4, 15, 17 | |
| Nurse consultations at home | 90993 | 16.00 | 1.46 | 4, 15, 17 | |
| Accident and emergency | Attendances | 581002 | 82.00 | 47.64 | 12, 18 |
| Hospital outpatient care | Attendances | 1807652 | 111.88 | 202.23 | 16 |
| Hospital inpatient care | Inpatient bed days | 16097020 | 617.09 | 9 933.26 | 11, 16 |
| Hospital day case | Day cases | 208721 | 717.76 | 149.81 | 12, 18 |
| Drugs | Prescriptions | 226284133 | 10.72 | 2426.52 | 14 |
| Dispensing | 226284133 | 1.53 | 346.30 | 19 | |
| Cardiac rehabilitation | Rehabilitation programmes completed | 413679 | 627.57 | 259.61 | 6, 8 |
| Community health/social services | 1793.49 | 5 | |||
| Healthcare cost adjusted for private care | Private funded part of total health expenditure | 1643.00 | 11 | ||
| Healthcare subtotal | 17 386.19 | ||||
| Non-healthcare cost | |||||
| Informal care | Caring by economically active carers (hours) | 320688448 | 12.75 | 4088.78 | 17, 20, 21, 22, 23 |
| Caring by economically inactive carers (hours) | 201444020 | 4.85 | 977.00 | 17, 20, 21, 22, 23 | |
| Mortality | Working years lost (men) | 195423 | 30 131 | 3385.28* | 1, 17 |
| Working years lost (women) | 48975 | 21 730 | 559.97* | 1, 17 | |
| Morbidity | Certified incapacity (days) | 69346572 | 100.98 | 7002.62 | 17, 25 |
| Morbidity (friction adjusted) | 2716.53 | ||||
| Non-healthcare subtotal | 16013.65 | ||||
| Friction adjusted | 11727.56 | ||||
| Total economic burden | 33399.84 | ||||
| Friction adjusted | 29113.76 | ||||