Written question asked by Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party) on Monday, 31 March 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 April 2025. It was answered by Karin Smyth (Labour) on Thursday, 17 April 2025 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Dialysis Machines: Costs

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2025 to Question 28481 on Dialysis Machines: Per Capita Costs, if he will provide a breakdown of the figures by (a) in centre and (b) home therapies dialysis treatment in the last three years; what the total annual cost was to the NHS per dialysis; and what assessment he has made of how these align with NHS England guidance on Best Practice Tariffs.

Answer: This data is not available in the requested format. Best Practice Tariffs are regularly updated to ensure they incentivise National Health Service providers to move from usual care to best practice, by creating a price differential between agreed best practice and usual care.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 42446
Session: 2024-26
Related items: Dialysis Machines: Per Capita Costs
Friday, 7 March 2025
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Costs Dialysis machines
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk