Table 10.
Total annual National Health Service (NHS) cost (at 2017/2018 prices) of wound care attributable to managing 3.8 million patients with a wound and cost per patient, stratified by healing
| Total NHS cost for all patients (£ million) | Mean annual NHS cost per patient | |||
| Healed wounds | Unhealed wounds | Healed wounds | Unhealed wound | |
| Abscess | 152.12 | 81.40 | £604.88 | £1977.94 |
| Burn | 140.23 | 104.40 | £754.81 | £2922.16 |
| Diabetic foot ulcer | 490.11 | 787.25 | £2874.36 | £5056.71 |
| Leg ulcer (arterial) | 53.70 | 41.56 | £2623.83 | £4061.31 |
| Leg ulcer (mixed) | 143.77 | 459.11 | £4684.15 | £6411.01 |
| Leg ulcer (unspecified) | 379.58 | 337.77 | £1901.79 | £2089.98 |
| Leg ulcer (venous) | 422.56 | 2781.49 | £2036.67 | £7886.05 |
| Open wound | 127.51 | 52.84 | £421.83 | £1515.03 |
| Pressure ulcer | 90.44 | 481.54 | £747.75 | £5972.28 |
| Surgical wound | 389.92 | 157.01 | £884.11 | £2024.49 |
| Trauma | 83.78 | 12.31 | £358.09 | £831.63 |
| Unspecified | 273.48 | 276.13 | £533.82 | £3146.03 |