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Cost-effectiveness of a pilot social care service for UK military veterans

Cost-effectiveness of a pilot social care service for UK military veterans
Clarkson P Journal of Care Services Management, 7, 95-106. 2014


Project ID (Internal) 37
Project Status completed
Full Reference (text) Clarkson P, Giebel C, Challis D, et al (2013) Cost-effectiveness of a pilot social care service for UK military veterans. Journal of Care Services Management. 7:95-106. [The abstract can be accessed here]
Full Reference (URL) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1750168714Y.0000000030?journalCode=ycsm20
Summary / Abstract

This paper investigates the cost-effectiveness of a pilot social care service for military veterans, a group relatively ill-served by traditional forms of social and health care. The service involved caseworkers signposting veterans, experiencing multiple difficulties, to sources of advice designed to assist with issues such as employment and training, education, debt, legal problems, and housing. Routinely generated data were collected on 202 veterans, concerning their characteristics, types of problem, and resources identified, and on a sub-set (n = 21) of these, regarding their outcomes in terms of well-being, measured by routine administration of the General Health Questionnaire. Costs, in terms of caseworkers’ time commitments, were modelled across this sample of veterans. The additional costs as against the additional effects of the service, against usual care (the standard primary care response to this population), were modelled in terms of the Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio. There was a statistically significant reduction in symptoms after receipt of the service at an average cost of £155 per unit improvement in well-being. Analysis of uncertainty revealed a high probability of cost-effectiveness when set against a benchmark value of standard social care for adults. These findings are discussed in terms of the future priority given to the after-care of veterans, in particular regarding social care interventions, which remain under-evaluated.

Publication Title Cost-effectiveness of a pilot social care service for UK military veterans
Author(s) Clarkson P
Publication Details Journal of Care Services Management, 7, 95-106.
Publication Year / End of Project 2014
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