Measuring the overall performance of mental healthcare providers

María José Aragón, Hugh Gravelle, Adriana Castelli, Maria Goddard, Nils Gutacker, Anne Mason, Donna Rowen, Russell Mannion and Rowena Jacobs

Social Science & Medicine, 2024, vol. 344, issue C

Abstract: To date there have been no attempts to construct composite measures of healthcare provider performance which reflect preferences for health and non-health benefits, as well as costs. Health and non-health benefits matter to patients, healthcare providers and the general public. We develop a novel provider performance measurement framework that combines health gain, non-health benefit, and cost and illustrate it with an application to 54 English mental health providers. We apply estimates from a discrete choice experiment eliciting the UK general population's valuation of non-health benefits relative to health gains, to administrative and patient survey data for years 2013–2015 to calculate equivalent health benefit (eHB) for providers. We measure costs as forgone health and quantify the relative performance of providers in terms of equivalent net health benefit (eNHB): the value of the health and non-health benefits minus the forgone benefit equivalent of cost. We compare rankings of providers by eHB, eNHB, and by the rankings produced by the hospital sector regulator. We find that taking account of the non-health benefits in the eNHB measure makes a substantial difference to the evaluation of provider performance. Our study demonstrates that the provider performance evaluation space can be extended beyond measures of health gain and cost, and that this matters for comparison of providers.

Keywords: Health benefits; Non-health benefits; Costs; Performance measurement; Mental health providers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116582

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