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

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  • Ken Wright
  • Alan Haycox

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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.

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  • Ken Wright & Alan Haycox, 1984. "Public sector costs of caring for mentally handicapped persons in a large hospital," Working Papers 001chedp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
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    1. Knapp, Martin & Comas-Herrera, Adelina & Astin, Jack & Beecham, Jennifer & Pendaries, Claude, 2005. "Intellectual disability, challenging behaviour and cost in care accommodation: what are the links?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 336, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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