Pay and Price Indices
- Abstract
- Hospital and community health service (HCHS) pay and price inflation is weighted average of 2 separate inflation indices, the pay cost index (PCI) and the health service cost index (HSCI).
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Expenditure
- Variables
- n/a
- Keywords
- Inflation, prices, hospital, health and community services
- Identifier Variables
- N/A
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Indices
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Data Available
- Socio-economic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Department of Health
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
- 41 sub-indices of goods and services purchased by the HCHS
- Availability
- Department of Health
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.info.doh.gov.uk/[…]p;Start=13.1&ExpandView
- Contact
- Tel: 02072104850
- Publications
- Beecham J, et al. Leaving hospital II: the cost-effectiveness of community care for former long-stay psychiatric hospital patients. Journal of Mental Health 1996; 5(4) 379-394