How can 174 people place significant burden on NHS? I understand their concern but certainly there are bigger fish to fry.
Also, more importantly, the analysis is completely flawed. Their ROI is based on the injuried, not all who donated and dived.
There analysis is correct. They looked across all charity parachutists, the medical costs for those injured versus total amount raised.
How can it put a burden on the NHS?
Of 105 patients admitted to hospital, 66 (63%) required operative intervention.
Can you imagine the 1 or 2 hospitals dealing with this? The system overall can deal with it, but not the local providers.
There were ~1500 jumpers in 5 years across the two centres, of which 174 (11%) were injured at a cost of £3751 per injury.
Too many loose ends here, or a sloppy job at communication.