Table 2 Costs of coronary heart 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)
Healthcare cost
Primary care	Doctor consultations at clinic	2173876	28.00	60.87	4, 15, 17
	Doctor consultations at home	505052	65.00	32.83	4, 15, 17
	Nurse consultations at clinic	50456	9.00	0.45	4, 15, 17
	Nurse consultations at home	30136	16.00	0.48	4, 15, 17
Accident and emergency	Attendances	208302	82.00	17.08	12, 18
Hospital outpatient care	Attendances	501902	111.88	56.15	9, 10, 16
Hospital inpatient care	Inpatient bed days	3931313	617.09	2425.96	11, 16
Hospital day case	Day cases	70120	412.14	28.90	12, 18
Drugs	Prescriptions	49782509	10.72	533.83	6, 14
	Dispensing	49782509	1.53	76.19	19
Cardiac rehabilitation	Rehabilitation programmes completed	150218	627.57	94.27	6, 8
Community health/social services				132.59	5
Healthcare cost adjusted for private care	Private funded part of total health expenditure			399.40	11
Healthcare subtotal				3859.00
Non‐healthcare cost
Informal care	Caring by economically active carers (hours)	79504636	12.75	1013.68	17, 20, 21, 22, 23
	Caring by economically inactive carers (hours)	49941723	4.85	242.22	17, 20, 21, 22, 23
Mortality	Working years lost (men)	120278	30 131	2139.66*	1, 17
	Working years lost (women)	15710	21 730	192.16*	1, 17
Morbidity	Certified incapacity (days)	26076510	100.98	2633.21	17, 25
Morbidity (friction adjusted)				1021.50
Non‐health subtotal				6220.93
Friction adjusted				4609.22
Total economic burden				10079.93
Friction adjusted				8468.23

*Future earnings discounted at 3.5%.