Understanding health and care expenditure by setting - who matters to whom?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess service use and associated expenditure across a range of care settings in one local authority in London, United Kingdom.

Methods

An analysis of linked electronic health and council records of adults living in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, east London, for the financial year 2016/17. Unit costs were applied to individual service use to provide expenditure at an individual and population level for five settings of care. Population and expenditure volumes were compared for 32 possible combinations of service use.

Results

The total expenditure for the cohort (114,393 residents) for 2016/17 was £180.1 million. Almost half (47%) of total expenditure was incurred by community care, social care and mental health services, with hospital care and prim

SUBMITTER: Shand J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8013836 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature