To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of treating patients who have contracted malaria in each of the last five years.
Answered on
2 June 2025
This information is not held centrally. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) holds data on all malaria cases diagnosed in the United Kingdom by the Malaria Reference Laboratory and Public Health Scotland. The UKHSA publishes annual reports on malaria in the UK, which are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/malaria-in-the-uk-annual-report
The UKHSA does not collect data on the cost to the National Health Service of treating patients who have contracted malaria.
NHS England captures and publishes aggregated costs, the average unit cost of providing defined services to NHS patients in England, and patient-level costs, a cost based on the specific interactions a patient has and the events related to their healthcare activity, with further information available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/costing-in-the-nhs/national-cost-collection/