Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2020

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2020
Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, December 2020

• This annual report consists of tables of unit costs for approaching 100 types of health and social care services. 
• Includes: Economic evaluation methods in social care: A scoping review. 
• This article summarises the methods used in published economic evaluations of social care interventions, briefly noting some recent methods developments, and it highlights key methods issues and gaps for addressing in the future.

The efficacy of public health spending for smoking, physical health, obesity and alcohol

The efficacy of public health spending
TaxPayers' Alliance 1 November 2017

• This research note examines the spending, access and cost effectiveness of four areas of public health spending across the UK: smoking, physical health, obesity and alcohol. It entailed asking about interventions and programmes for adults across the UK which sought to reduce or stop their smoking, take up sport, reduce their weight and diminish their alcohol intake.

The ‘Preventonomics’ Unit Cost Calculator (PUCC)

The ‘Preventonomics’ Unit Cost Calculator (PUCC)
PSSRU January 2017

• The PUCC is a simple, free-to-download Access database which can help you estimate costs of new – and existing –health and social care services.

NHS costs - variation by age and population

Public hospital spending in England: evidence from National Health Service administrative records

Institute for Fiscal Studies, IFS Working Paper W15/21, August 2015

• Analysis of administrative NHS hospital records found that costs per person start to increase after age 50 and escalate after age 70. 
• Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending accounted for by 1% of the general population, and 18% of spending by 1% of all patients. 
• There is persistence in spending over time with patients with high spending more likely to have spending in subsequent years, and those with zero expenditures more likely to remain out of hospital.
• The paper includes a description of the financial mechanisms used across the NHS.
• Note - UK pounds have been converted to US dollars throughout the paper.