Public, private and voluntary residential mental health care: is there a cost difference?

Martin Knapp, Daniel Chisholm, Jack Astin, Paul Lelliott, Bernard Audini (1998)

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 3 3 141-148

https://doi.org/10.1177/135581969800300304

Abstract

Objectives

To determine how public (NHS or local government), private (for-profit) and voluntary (non-profit) providers of residential mental health care compare. Do they support different clienteles? And do their services cost different amount