Unit Costs 2003 – 2021

PSSRU at the University of Kent has produced the annual cost estimates for the delivery of health and social care services for 29 years. Lesley Curtis, a Senior Research Fellow at PSSRU led the Unit Costs of Health and Social Care programme, alongside Amanda Burns Jennifer Beecham. The Unit Costs of Health and Social Care contract was completed in 2022.

We would like to thank our Advisory Group (Ross Campbell, Adriana Castelli, Ciara Donnelly, Sebastian Hinde, Tracey Sach, James Shearer, Adam Storrow and Jonathan White) for their input at our meetings. We would also like to thank colleagues from the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Digital and the Department of Education who shared the relevant datasets so we could estimate the unit costs. In addition, we received invaluable assistance from Anna Peckham, Sarah Godfrey, Alan Dargan and Ed Ludlow from the University of Kent. Thank you to you all.

We are so excited for the next five years and the collaboration between PSSRU and CHE.

Unit Costs reports 2003-2021

In 2022, the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent and the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York began an exciting and innovative collaboration to estimate unit costs for health and social care and to deliver an annual volume.

This new partnership builds on PSSRU’s successful approach and long experience to produce the original Unit Costs of Health and Social Care report, previous editions of which can be found below.

Watch the introduction to the Unit Costs video above (the guidance in this video applies to the Unit Costs Reports below and not the latest Manual).

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2021

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2020

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2019

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2018

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2017

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2016

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2015

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2014

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2013

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2012

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2011

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2010

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2009

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2008

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2007

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2006

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2005

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2004

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2003

Unit Costs Articles database

Unit Costs Database of Health and Social Care Professionals 2020/21

The Introduction to the Unit Costs Report