Intervention | Cost (£ per patient) |
PAE (UHS) | |
Interventional radiology (IR) clinic (pre and post) | 100 |
CT angiography | 250 |
Procedural and postprocedural staffing costs (IR room time, scrub team, recovery and radiographer) | 500 |
Sheath, wire, catheter and microcatheter | 300 |
Embolization pack (drapes and consumables) | 50 |
Urology clinic (pre and post) | 100 |
Urodynamics (optional) | 200 |
MRI (optional) | 350 |
Ultrasound scan (optional) | 150 |
Total | 2000 |
TURP (UHS) | |
Theatre time | 1126 |
Ward costs | 595 |
Anesthetist cost | 264 |
Surgeon cost | 201 |
Materials | 180 |
Pathology | 162 |
Miscellaneous | 400 |
Clinic (pre and post) | 100 |
Total | 3028 |
TURP (National Schedule of Reference Costs 2015/2016)*15 | |
Transurethral prostate resection procedures with CC Score 6+ | 4359.52 |
Transurethral prostate resection procedures with CC Score 3–5 | 2992.66 |
Transurethral prostate resection procedures with CC Score 0–2 | 2537.97 |
*Document published by the Department of Health and Social Care which outlines spending across 237 National Health Service providers for delivering healthcare to patients in 2015 and 2016.
CC, complications and comorbidities; PAE, prostate artery embolization; TURP, transurethral resection of the prostate; UHS, University Hospital Southampton.