Annual amount and corresponding cost (at 2017/2018 prices) of National Health Service (NHS) resource use attributable to managing 3.8 million patients with a wound, stratified by healing
| Annual number (thousand) | Annual cost (£ million) | |||||
| Healed | Unhealed | Percentage difference in resource use (%) | Healed | Unhealed | Percentage difference in resource cost (%) | |
| Number of patients with a wound | 2677.00 | 1125.00 | ||||
| Ambulance services | 4.51 | 62.61 | 1288% | £0.68 | £9.47 | 1293% |
| Hospital outpatient visits | 1286.85 | 5466.09 | 325% | £130.85 | £535.38 | 309% |
| Practice nurse visits | 7430.80 | 20 631.83 | 178% | £156.05 | £433.27 | 178% |
| GP visits | 5460.16 | 14 820.37 | 171% | £407.22 | £1102.56 | 171% |
| Podiatrist visits | 16.11 | 43.27 | 169% | £2.18 | £5.86 | 169% |
| Prescribed medication | 5593.33 | 12 280.00 | 120% | £86.72 | £189.02 | 118% |
| Accident and emergency attendances | 238.34 | 519.66 | 118% | £38.19 | £83.26 | 118% |
| District/community nurse visits | 18 342.87 | 36 070.99 | 97% | £825.59 | £1623.02 | 97% |
| Wound care products (dressings/bandages/hosiery/creams/ointments/tapes, etc) | £181.06 | £350.32 | 93% | |||
| Healthcare assistant visits | 18 816.65 | 34 830.75 | 85% | £489.23 | £905.61 | 85% |
| Specialist nurse visits* | 21.12 | 24.52 | 16% | £1.35 | £1.58 | 17% |
| Hospital admissions and day cases | 286.73 | 138.31 | −52% | £427.89 | £333.37 | −22% |
| Diagnostic tests | 86.89 | 57.06 | −34% | £0.19 | £0.09 | −53% |
| Total | £2747.20 | £5572.81 | 103% | |||
*Includes tissue viability nurses and diabetic nurse specialists.
GP, general practitioner.