Table 5 Total costs of pregnancy to the NHS for all pregnant multiparous women and mean costs of pregnancy per pregnant multiparous women (UK Sterling, price year 2010)
Group | Average unit costs | Best case scenario (using lower quartile costs) | Worst case scenario (using upper quartile costs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total costs of pregnancy | Mean cost per pregnant woman | Total costs of pregnancy | Mean cost per pregnant woman | Total costs of pregnancy | Mean cost per pregnant woman | ||||
Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||||
1: Women with a previous healthy child | £812,436,000 | 87.4 | £2,147 | £498,068,000 | 84.6 | £1,316 | £962,903,000 | 87.6 | £2,544 |
2a: Women with a previous healthy child but has diabetes | £80,470,000 | 8.7 | £3,870 | £65,128,000 | 11.1 | £3,132 | £92,229,000 | 8.4 | £4,436 |
2b: Women with a previous healthy child but has hypertension | £36,430,000 | 3.9 | £2,920 | £25,850,000 | 4.4 | £2,072 | £43,927,000 | 4.0 | £3,521 |
Total | £929,336,000 | 98.4 | - | £589,046,000 | 98.2 | - | £1,099,059,000 | 98.4 | - |
3a: Women with a previous stillbirth – known causes (non-recurrent) | £2,719,000 | 18.0 | £3,235 | £1,902,000 | 17.8 | £2,263 | £3,309,000 | 18.0 | £3,937 |
3b: Women with a previous stillbirth – known causes (recurrent) | £9,420,000 | 62.2 | £3,720 | £6,660,000 | 61.9 | £2,607 | £11,410,000 | 62.2 | £4,506 |
3c: Women with a previous stillbirth – unknown causes | £2,371,000 | 15.7 | £3,751 | £1,664,000 | 15.6 | £2,633 | £2,872,000 | 15.7 | £4,543 |
Total | £14,510,000 | 1.5 | - | £10, 226,000 | 1.7 | - | £17,591,000 | 1.6 | - |
Overall Total | £943,846,000 | 95.9 | - | £599,272,000 | 95.3 | - | £1,116,650,000 | 95.9 | - |