Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether the rate of spend on child and adolescent mental health is influenced by demand for other competing services in local commissioning decisions.

Design

Analysis of spend data by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), including other publicly available data to control for variation in need.

Setting

Local commissioning decisions in the National Health Service.

Participants

Commissioning of health services across 209 CCGs.

Main outcome measures

Association between the rate of child and adolescent mental health spend and demand for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), adult mental health services and physical health services after adjusting for confounding factors.

Results

An additional percentage point in

SUBMITTER: Rocks S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797274 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature