The main purpose of this paper is to measure the costs of small (i.e. less than 50 beds) NHS units for the care of mentally handicapped persons in the community and to compare these costs with those of hospital care standardising wherever possible for resident characteristics such as age and...

This paper analyzes the total cost of individual wards in the Royal Albert Hospital, Lancaster during the financial year 1981/2. The hospital concerned provides care for over 800 mentally handicapped residents and the average cost per patient per day is within the national average for such...