SCIE’s work on cost-effectiveness in social care

1. SCIE’s work on cost-effectiveness in social care • Working with stakeholders to develop an evidence base • Many gaps in the evidence - and methodological challenges • Building on: • Our academic links and other partnerships • Our own (developing) economics expertise • Our experience of disseminating research findings • Our accessible website • Our new Good Practice Framework

2. SCIE’s work programme on economic evaluation • Seeking to incorporate economic evaluation into our assessment of what constitutes good practice • Aiming to publish a series of briefings on the theme of “prevention” in 2010 and 2011 • Starting with a briefing on reablement – incorporating new findings from PSSRU - in autumn 2010

3. SCIE’s work in partnership with other national agencies • Meeting regularly with key partners – e.g. DH, ADASS, LGID, Audit Commission, CQC – to plan a co-ordinated approach • Taking stock of the evidence that already exists, and of the areas that require further research/investigation • Co-ordinating our work both to collect and to disseminate relevant evidence and information • Aiming to develop a web-based information hub on cost-effectiveness in adult social care

4. Efficiency and personalisation • Working with DH to collect evidence about emerging successful practice: • Is personalisation delivering better value for money? • What is the impact on costs? • Are processes being streamlined? • How are markets responding? • Using SCIE’s Good Practice Framework to assess and disseminate the evidence • Aiming to complete by end of October