Table 3.

Estimated costs for a 3-month surveillance period for surgical site infection following caesarean section for a model hospital conducting 800 caesarean sections per year

Surveillance		Item	Surveillance	Total	Inflated costs*
Surveillance nurse	a	0.4 equivalent band 6 surveillance nurse (24% on costs)	£14 614
	b	1 surveillance quarter	0.25
		Total (a*b)		£3653.54	£4328.78
Administration	a	Stationery/photocopying/stamps/phone calls	£0.47
	b	Patients in surveillance quarter	200
		Total (a*b)		£93.00	£110.19
		Total cost		£3746.54	£4438.97

*Inflated to 2019 prices using UK Consumer Price Index—total less food, less energy (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Data).