Sharing resources for health in England : report of the Resource Allocation Working Party.

  • Great Britain. Resource Allocation Working Party
Date:
1976
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Credit: Sharing resources for health in England : report of the Resource Allocation Working Party. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and a ‘per day’ element both of which could be varied or fixed for each specialty. The groupings of specialties and the costs to be attached are shown in Table C10. They were based on a model which assumed that the fixed element varied according to specialty groupings while the ‘per day’ element remained the same for all specialties. Table C10 PATIENT FLOWS: SPECIALTY GROUPINGS AND COSTS DERIVED FROM REGRESSION ANALYSIS The estimated average cost per case for selected groupings of specialties Cost Estimated Standard Group Cost Per Case Error £ 1 105 Zh O; 245 Sz 3 369 56.9 4 116 173 5 391 19.8 6 9] 4.6 a 57 13.9 8 38 29.0 9 156 25.6 10 148 9.5 11 79 4.6 12 114 14.5 Cost Cost Specialties considered Group Specialties considered Group Cardiology 3 Ophthalmology 6 Convalescent 12 Orthodontics 8 Dental Surgery 8 Orthopaedic Surgery 10 Dermatology 2 Paediatrics 4 Diseases of the Chest 2 Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation 2 ENT 7 Plastic Surgery 9 General Medicine 1 Preconvalescent 12 General Surgery 6 Radiotherapy 9 Geriatric 5 Rheumatology 2 GP Dental 8 Special Baby Care Units 4 GP Maternity 11 Staff Wards 1 GP Others | Thoracic Surgery 9 Gynaecology 11 Traumatic and Orthopaedic Infectious Diseases | Surgery 10 Nephrology 3 Urology 6 Neurology 3 VD l Neurosurgery 9 Younger Disabled 5 Obstetrics ul Sources: Expenditure from 1971/72 Costing Returns for provincial non-teaching hospitals in types 1 (Acute), 2 (Mainly Acute), and 3 (Partly Acute); Statistics from DHSS Hospital Returns (Form SH3).
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