Unit Costs of Health and Social Care
2009
Compiled by Lesley Curtis
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New in this edition
This year the Unit Costs report starts with a preface which discusses new developments and introduces a guest editorial and three brief articles. The guest editorial discusses how systematic reviews and economic evaluations of interventions inform health and social care policy and practice. The first article presents the costs of support organisations for people with direct payments and personal budgets. The second article describes the work of the Social Care Institute for Excellence on economics and the importance of valuing unpaid care, and the third article describes the National Dementia Strategy published in 2009 which aims to ensure significant improvements are made to dementia services.
Foreword
This is the seventeenth volume in a series of reports
from a Department of Health-funded programme of work
based at the Personal Social Services Research Unit
at the University of Kent.
To a greater or
lesser degree, the costs reported always reflect work in progress, as the intention is
to refine and improve estimates wherever possible, drawing
on a wide variety of sources. The aim is to provide
information that is detailed and comprehensive, and to improve unit cost estimates over time, drawing
on material as it becomes available, including ongoing
and specially commissioned research and quoting sources
and assumptions so users can adapt the information for
their own purposes.
In putting the report together, there are a large number
of individuals who have provided direct input in the
form of data, permission to use material and background
information and advice.
Grateful thanks are extended especially to Ann Netten and Jennifer Beecham
who have been an invaluable source of support in the
preparation of this report. I would also like to extend
special thanks to Glen Harrison and Nick Brawn for taking
expert charge of the design and typesetting. Thanks are also due to Jacques Ashley, James Barlow, Sarah Byford, Adriana Castelli, Vanessa Davey, Jane Dennett and Keith Derbyshire. Thanks also to Ben Hickman, Sarah Horne, Martin Knapp,
David Lloyd, David McDaid, Miranda Mugford, Neil Parkinson,
Stephen Richards, Katherine
Robbins, Tim Roast, Renee Romeo, Ian Shemilt, David Stevens, Rob Stones, Marian Taylor, Helen Weatherly, Richard Wistow
and Raphael Wittenberg.
If you are aware of other sources of information which
can be used to improve our estimates, notice errors
or have any other comments, please contact Lesley
Curtis, telephone 01227 827193.
Many figures in this report have been rounded and
therefore occasionally it may appear that the totals
do not add up.
Corrections
This electronic version is updated if errors are discovered.
A log of these corrections can be found here.
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Cover
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Lesley Curtis
Guest Editorial
Ian Shemilt and Miranda Mugford
Estimating unit costs for Direct Payments Support Organisations
Vanessa Davey, Francesco d'Amico and Martin Knapp
The National Dementia Strategy: potential costs and impacts
Jennifer Beecham
SCIE's work on economics and the importance of informal care
Jennifer Francis and David McDaid
Schemas
For a detailed list of services covered in these sections,
see the contents pages or the index
of services.
I Services
1. Services for older
people
2. Services for people
with mental health problems
3. Services for people
who misuse drugs/alcohol
4. Services for people
with learning disabilities
5. Services for younger
adults with physical and sensory impairments
6. Hospital
and other services
II Community-based health care staff
7. Scientific
and professional
8. Nurses
and doctors
III Community-based social care staff
9. Social
care staff
10. Health
and social care teams
IV Hospital-based health care staff
11. Scientific
and professional
12. Nurses
13. Doctors
V Miscellaneous
Inflation
indices
Agenda
for Change pay bands
Glossary
References
Index
of references
List of useful sources
List of items from previous volumes not included in this volume
Index
of services |
