Personal independence payments among people who access mental health services: results from a novel data linkage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personal independence payment (PIP) is a benefit that covers additional daily living costs people may incur from a long-term health condition or disability. Little is known about PIP receipt and associated factors among people who access mental health services, and trends over time. Individual-level data linking healthcare records with administrative records on benefits receipt have been non-existent in the UK.

Aims

To explore how PIP receipt varies over time, including PIP type, and its association with sociodemographic and diagnostic patient characteristics among people who access mental health services.

Method

A data-set was established by linking electronic mental health records from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust with administrative

SUBMITTER: Stevelink SAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11457205 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature