Our research shows for the first time the true financial cost of CMV.
Our report outlines how congenital CMV costs the UK £750m every year.
Currently 1,000 babies are born with congenital CMV, costing the NHS, social services and educational services approximately £330m.
The remaining £420 million falls on the wider economy through lost work days, because parents are often unable to work while caring for a disabled child, as well as funding specialist equipment and therapies not available on the NHS.
We commissioned York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) to estimate the economic costs of cCMV in the UK. The model provides a ‘snapshot’ of the estimated cost burdens of cCMV to the UK in the year 2016 (the most recent complete single year when the model was developed).
‘The Economic Cost of Congenital CMV in the UK’ was published in the British Medical Journal, Archives of Diseases in Childhood in November 2018.
Our report is based on the YHEC academic study and outlines the costs due to congenital CMV and our recommendations on how to reduce the cost burden.
The Economic Impact
Our parents survey showed families facing a significant economic burden due to the consequences of their child’s congenital CMV.
Ben Mills was born with congenital CMV 26 years ago. Follow the link to see how the costs build up from just one person living with the consequences of CMV.
Parents personally affected have shared their experiences of the cost involved with caring for a child living with the consequences of CMV.
Our recommendations will reduce the cost burden.