Trusts incur costs in delivering drugs, oxygen, blood products or supplies directly to patient’s homes, without any associated clinical activity at the time of delivery. Home delivery of On this line, trusts should include the administration and There is currently no national and supplies: associated relating to home delivery of drugs and requirement to understand administration supplies, including: the unit costs of providing and associated costs of enrolling patients and the managing of the this service. costs home care service costs of contracting, ordering, invoice matching and payment nurse support of a non-clinical nature any other associated administrative costs. Home delivery of On this line, trusts should include the costs of the: is currently no national drugs and including oxygen or blood products requirement to understand supplies: drugs, supplies, e.g. continence pads or enteral feeding the unit costs of providing supplies and delivery of drugs or supplies this service. associated costs any other associated drug or supply costs. Scheme offering financial help with the cost of travel to and from hospitals and other NHS centres. Note that overnight stays are not part of the HTCS. However, the HTCS guidance states: " Where an Because this scheme overnight stay away from home is unavoidable, either fixed payments to eligible Hospital travel because of the time of the appointment or length of NHS patients there is no costs scheme travel required, and the patient is unable to meet the requirement to understand or cost of this stay, the expense should be treated as part benchmark provider unit of treatment costs or met through non-Exchequer funds. costs. This should be discussed with the relevant CCG before the overnight stay occurs." Providers should therefore include overnight as an overhead in their reference costs. We will consider whether to Learning include learning disability disability services services in reference costs from 2015-16 Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) and See paragraph 455 are one-off costs. Private Finance Initiative (PFI) set up costs The following services delivered by mental health trusts: Acquired injury Mental health Neuropsychiatry trusts specified No suitable currencies exist. – No other service, and no other provider type to mental services health trusts, may be excluded in this category without our permission.
Home delivery of and supplies: administration and associated costs Trusts incur costs in delivering drugs, oxygen, blood products or supplies directly to patient’s homes, without any associated clinical activity at the time of delivery. On this line, trusts should include the administration and associated relating to home delivery of drugs and supplies, including: costs of enrolling patients and the managing of the home care service costs of contracting, ordering, invoice matching and payment nurse support of a non-clinical nature any other associated administrative costs. There is currently no national requirement to understand the unit costs of providing this service. Home delivery of drugs and supplies: drugs, supplies and associated costs On this line, trusts should include the costs of the: including oxygen or blood products supplies, e.g. continence pads or enteral feeding delivery of drugs or supplies any other associated drug or supply costs. is currently no national requirement to understand the unit costs of providing this service. Hospital travel costs scheme Scheme offering financial help with the cost of travel to and from hospitals and other NHS centres. Note that overnight stays are not part of the HTCS. However, the HTCS guidance states: " Where an overnight stay away from home is unavoidable, either because of the time of the appointment or length of travel required, and the patient is unable to meet the cost of this stay, the expense should be treated as part of treatment costs or met through non-Exchequer funds. This should be discussed with the relevant CCG before the overnight stay occurs." Providers should therefore include overnight as an overhead in their reference costs. Because this scheme fixed payments to eligible NHS patients there is no requirement to understand or benchmark provider unit costs. Learning disability services We will consider whether to include learning disability services in reference costs from 2015-16 Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) and Private Finance Initiative (PFI) set up costs See paragraph 455 are one-off costs. Mental health trusts – specified services The following services delivered by mental health trusts: Acquired injury Neuropsychiatry No other service, and no other provider type to mental health trusts, may be excluded in this category without our permission. No suitable currencies exist.
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