Public sector costs of caring for mentally handicapped persons in a large hospital

Ken Wright and Alan Haycox ()

No 001chedp, Working Papers from Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Abstract: This paper analyzes the total cost of individual wards in the Royal Albert Hospital, Lancaster during the financial year 1981/2. The hospital concerned provides care for over 800 mentally handicapped residents and the average cost per patient per day is within the national average for such hospitals. Furthermore since costs isolated are not distorted by the existence of an exceptional preponderance of residents of any particular age, sex or dependency level, the cost structures may be found to be representative nationally. Our analysis has attempted to assess the total cost of wards at this hospital. As such we have widened the scope of the work to include not only NHS costs but also cost consequences of providing social support to the hospital by the Local Education Authority and local Social Services department.

Pages: 60 pages
Date: 1984-03
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