Costing community care : theory and practice /: theory and practice. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ann Netten and Jennifer Beecham.
• Editors: Netten, Ann; Beecham, Jennifer
• Other Names: University of Kent at Canterbury., Personal Social Services Research Unit.
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Foreword; 1 Costing Community Care: The Role of this Book; 1 The need for cost information; 2 The organisation of this book; 3 Conclusion; Part I: The Costing Process; 2 Background Theory; 1 Opportunity costs; 2 Examples of opportunity costing; 3 Costs and outputs; 4 Conclusion; 3 Costing Services: Ideals and Reality; 1 The principles of costing; 2 Ideals, reality and acceptable compromises; 3 Practice; 4 Costing facility-based services; 5 Costing peripatetic staff; 6 Hidden costs; 7 Conclusion 4 Costing Informal Care1 Defining informal care; 2 Types of cost; 3 Direct financial expenditure; 4 Costing time; 5 Future cost; 6 Space and privacy; 7 Conclusion; Part II: The Uses of Cost Information; 5 Principles of Applied Cost Research; 1 Basic principles; 2 Comprehensive costs; 3 Exploring and exploiting variations; 4 Like-with-like comparisons; 5 Merging costs and outcomes; 6 Conclusion; 6 Proceed With Caution: The Use of Official Sources of Cost Information in Social Services Departments; 1 Constructing unit cost estimates from official government sources 2 The validity and reliability of official sources of unit costs estimates3 Costs and services planning after the purchaser-provider split; 4 Conclusion; 7 Costs, Prices and Charges; 1 Price or charge?; 2 Pricing and charging objectives; 3 The pricing environment; 4 Pricing and charging strategies; 5 Conclusion; 8 New Policies and Old Logics: Costs Information and Modal Choice; 1 The traditional logic; 2 Implications of changes in policy ends and means; 3 Begged questions: some needed developments in logic and evidence; Part III: The Application of Costs 9 Calculating Unit Costs of a Centre for People with AIDS/HIV1 Defining and measuring outputs; 2 Relating inputs to outputs; 3 Costing inputs; 4 Determining unit costs; 5 Consequences; 10 Case Management: Costing the Experiments; 1 The costing process; 2 Costing the Gateshead Community Care Scheme; 3 Costing the Darlington Community Care Project; 4 Using the cost information: comparing costs and benefits and cost-effectiveness; 5 Conclusion; 11 Costs, Needs and Outcomes in Community Mental Health Care; 1 Psychiatric reprovision -- methodology; 2 Inexplicable variations? 3 A theoretical basis for exploring cost variations4 Estimated cost functions; 5 Evidence and implications; 6 Conclusions; 12 Intermediate Treatment: User Characteristics and the Prediction of Costs; 1 Principles and methods; 2 The costs of intermediate treatment; 3 Predicting cost variations; 4 Conclusion; Part IV: Epilogue; 13 Costs Estimation and Community Care: Why We Must Run Fast To Stand Still; 1 Cost estimates as 'facts'; 2 Priorities for continuous re-estimation; 3 Conclusion; Subject Index; Author Index
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.4/3361941; Social service -- Great Britain -- Costs; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429463532; 0429463537; 9780429872914; 0429872917
• Related ISBNs: 113861209X; 9781138612099
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 27, 2018).
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