The cost of a band 6 nurse at a rate of 51 per hour was applied80 . The following costs were taken from a published cost analysis for pre-dialysis patients conducted at Kings College Hospital, London368 : Clinic space - 5 per patient-hour Clerical staff - 3.28 per visit Transporting a patient to hospital (assumed 10% patients will require this) - 45 for return visit Disposables were assumed to cost 5 per visit (including cannula, needles, syringes, dressing, IV giving set and sodium chloride solution). The unit costs of intravenous iron were estimated based on the doses reported in the trials included in the clinical review. These are summarised below and more detail is available in Table 57: FAIR-HF: min. dose (11x200mg) = 831, max. dose (15 x 200mg) = 1,133 CONFIRM-HF: min (1x500mg/vial) = 131, max. dose (7x500mg/vial) = 916* IRON-HF: 5x200mg = 374 * please note that the cost of 1000mg vial has fallen and is now less costly than two 500mg vials. Therefore this cost may be slightly over-estimated if an initial dose of 1000mg was given rather than 500mg. All maintenance doses in the trial were 500mg. Treating Heart Failure Chronic Heart Failure NICE 2018. All rights reserved. Subject to Notice of rights. ISBN: Table 57: Cost of IV iron therapy Regimen Drug cost ( ) Nurse time per infusion, minutes Nurse cost ( ) (b) Other ( ) Total ( ) Tria l Drug Iron mg/ vial Vials /visit No. 