Cost effectiveness

Cost effectiveness is an important aspect of commissioning, because it compares the cost of a health intervention alongside the outcome, which helps commissioners to allocate resources effectively.

Our Cost effectiveness Blogs

Culturally inclusive parenting programme benefits families in deprived urban areas

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This RCT of 674 diverse, disadvantaged parents found that Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) group parenting support improved wellbeing and parent-child relationships at modest cost.

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Not just about cost: person-centred digital care for mental health-related sick leave

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Can a nurse-led, digital mental health intervention for common mental disorders reduce sick leave and save money? This RCT from Sweden looked at cost, care, and what matters to patients.

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Cost-effective therapy for postnatal depression in British South Asian Mothers

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Lorna Staines considers recent studies in psychological interventions, to support affordable healthcare for South Asian women with postnatal depression.

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Is behavioural activation cost-effective for depression in older adults?

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Olga Lainidi summarises a recently Dutch RCT which asks: is behavioural activation a more cost-effective and accessible alternative to primary care treatments for older adults with depression?

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Quetiapine may pip lithium to the post for augmentation in ‘treatment resistant depression’: results from the LQD study

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Kirsten Lawson and Douglas Badenoch review the new randomised controlled trial by Cleare et al, published today in The Lancet Psychiatry, directly comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of lithium and quetiapine as augmentation treatments for patients with ‘treatment resistant depression’.

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Long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression: not cost-effective compared to treatment as usual

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In her debut blog, Ella Tuominen considers the Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS), which evaluated the cost-effectiveness of long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for treatment resistant depression compared to treatment as usual.

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Just one shot at it: single session interventions for adolescent depression

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Maria Loades and Georgia Herring consider a randomised trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19.

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Stratified care versus stepped care for depression: which is more effective?

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Sarah Watts reviews a cluster randomised clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of stratified care compared to stepped care for depression, which has implications for IAPT services.

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Internet-based psychotherapy may be cost-effective for anxiety and depression

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Ally Canaway blogs a systematic review which finds evidence of internet-based psychological interventions being cost-effective for depression and anxiety.

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Mental health: at what cost?

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In their debut Mental Elf blog, Martin Knapp and Gloria Wong summarise a systematic review of cost-of-illness studies, which explores the distribution of the costs between different mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions.

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