Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2009
Compiled by Lesley Curtis
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The PSSRU retains the copyright in the Unit Costs series. They may be freely distributed as pdf files and on paper, but quotations must be acknowledged and permission for use of longer excerpts must be obtained in advance. Please acknowledge Unit Costs of Health and Social Care as the source when using costs estimates and information from these reports.
Please note that when citing the report, the following format should be used:
Curtis, L. (2009) Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2009, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, Canterbury.
New in this edition
This year the Unit Costs report starts with a preface which discusses new developments and introduces a guest editorial and three brief articles. The guest editorial discusses how systematic reviews and economic evaluations of interventions inform health and social care policy and practice. The first article presents the costs of support organisations for people with direct payments and personal budgets. The second article describes the work of the Social Care Institute for Excellence on economics and the importance of valuing unpaid care, and the third article describes the National Dementia Strategy published in 2009 which aims to ensure significant improvements are made to dementia services.
Foreword
This is the seventeenth volume in a series of reports from a Department of Health-funded programme of work based at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent.
To a greater or lesser degree, the costs reported always reflect work in progress, as the intention is
to refine and improve estimates wherever possible, drawing on a wide variety of sources. The aim is to provide information that is detailed and comprehensive, and to improve unit cost estimates over time, drawing on material as it becomes available, including ongoing and specially commissioned research and quoting sources and assumptions so users can adapt the information for their own purposes.
In putting the report together, there are a large number of individuals who have provided direct input in the form of data, permission to use material and background information and advice.
Grateful thanks are extended especially to Ann Netten and Jennifer Beecham who have been an invaluable source of support in the preparation of this report. I would also like to extend special thanks to Glen Harrison and Nick Brawn for taking expert charge of the design and typesetting. Thanks are also due to Jacques Ashley, James Barlow, Sarah Byford, Adriana Castelli, Vanessa Davey, Jane Dennett and Keith Derbyshire. Thanks also to Ben Hickman, Sarah Horne, Martin Knapp, David Lloyd, David McDaid, Miranda Mugford, Neil Parkinson, Stephen Richards, Katherine Robbins, Tim Roast, Renee Romeo, Ian Shemilt, David Stevens, Rob Stones, Marian Taylor, Helen Weatherly, Richard Wistow and Raphael Wittenberg.
Many figures in this report have been rounded and therefore occasionally it may appear that the totals
do not add up.