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The mental health residential care study — the 'hidden costs' of provision
Author(s)	Daniel Chisholm, Martin Knapp, Jack Astin, Bernard Audini
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 5, no 3, May 1997
Pages	pp 162-172
Keywords	Psychiatric treatment ; Care homes ; Costs [care] ; Estimation.
Annotation	Reforms to the organisation and funding of health and social care in the UK have placed new responsibilities on social and health care purchasers to undertake assessment of the accommodation and care needs of people with mental health care problems living in the community. This responsibility is hampered by a lack of reliable or complete data on the range of services and costs associated with residential care. Many other costs are hidden: use of hospital, community and peripatetic services falls outside core functions or budgets. Using service and cost data from a wider study of residential care, non-accommodation costs were calculated for a number of residential settings. As a proportion of total costs, these ranged from below 10% in hospital settings, to between 13% and 39% in community based staffed hostels.
Accession Number	CPA-970529017 A
Classmark	LP: KW: QDC: 3YG
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