Summary: The government spends equivalent amounts on hospital care, special educational needs provision and social care – around £10 billion per year on each sector. ECHILD offers an excellent resource to assess costs across each of these sectors and the potential for more efficient integration.
This seminar will present a study from the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit, that assesses joint service utilisation and cost trajectories through healthcare, social care and special educational needs services. Shing Lau will present challenges and approaches to calculating healthcare costs and demonstrate their use in a cross sectional study of children aged 5-18 years in 2022/23 grouped according to their histories of chronic health conditions, social care and SEND services.
German Pulido will present findings from the same project using a prospective birth cohort. Two-thirds of all hospital days of stay among children aged 0 to 18 concentrate within 25% of high users who are characterised by chronic health conditions and SEND and to a lesser extent social care. Both approaches demonstrate the intersection of services for certain children and the potential value of more integrated care for high need users of services.
The session aims to generate interest in developing data science resources for economic analyses using ECHILD

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