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Cost-offset following specialist treatment of severe personality disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

B. M. Dolan ,
F. M. Warren ,
D. Menzies  and
K. Norton
K. Norton
Affiliation:
Henderson Hospital, 2 Homeland Drive, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5LT St. George's Hospital, Medical School, Section of Forensic Psychiatry, Tooting, London, SW17 0RE
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Service usage of 24 patients with a personality disorder was established for one year pre-treatment and one year post-treatment via a prospective survey of the patients, their original referrer and their general practitioner. The average annual cost of psychiatric and prison services (calculated from extra-contractual referrals (ECR) tariffs and Home Office data) was £13 966 pre-treatment compared to £1306 post-treatment, representing a cost-offset of £12 658 per patient per year. The average cost of the specialist admission was £25 641. Thus the cost to the Nation for treating these personality disordered patients in a tertiary treatment resource would be recouped within two years and represent a saving thereafter.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 7 , July 1996 , pp. 413 - 417
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996

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