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The mental health residential care study: the 'hidden costs' of provision
- Authors:
- CHISHOLM Daniel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 5(3), May 1997, pp.162-172.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reforms to the organization 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 problems who are 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, in particular the non-accommodation or costs which are hidden in the sense that they are often unaccounted for by individual. This article focuses on these 'hidden costs' and describes a survey of residential care for people with mental health problems in eight areas across England and Wales. Describes the methodology adopted in the costing of residential care, presents the findings and then considers the factors that determine the level of hidden costs in different residential settings, sectors or areas.
Use and cost of primary care services by people in residential mental health care
- Author:
- CHISHOLM Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Research Review, 5, May 1998, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
Discusses how the continuing shift of care for people with mental health problems from hospital to community-based settings raises the question of the extent to which this relocation has affected the workloads of not only community mental health professionals but also primary health care workers. Using data from a large, collaborative survey of residential care needs and costs for people with mental health problems in eight areas across England and Wales, the annual GP contract rate for a number of these residential care settings are reported, together with an estimate of the costs associated with these contacts.
Child and adolescent mental health services in Brixton and Croydon
- Authors:
- CHISHOLM Daniel, BYRNE Patrick, CROFT Carla
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Research Review, 6, May 1999, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
Summarises the results of a study to develop a system for the evaluation of child and adolescent mental health services, based upon a battery of measures of process and outcome. The study assesses the reliability of these measures and collects data on all services and supports which children in the sample receive, in order to calculate costs associated with the two models of service delivery. The sample consists of children aged between 5 and 11 who attended at least one out-patient session with emotional or conduct disorders.