Presents the latest figures on adult social care productivity. It covers the period 1996 – 2005. It builds on the previous Public Service Productivity: Adult Social Care article, published in April 2006. The article includes data on Scotland for the first time. The key finding is that productivity fell by 17 per cent over the period. However, the output index is not adjusted for quality changes and there is some evidence that quality improved and also some evidence of increased levels of dependency of clients in care homes
The UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity in the Office for National Statistics continues to investigate ways to build quality changes into the analysis through its Quality Measurement Framework project.
Published in web format: 17 September 2007 at 9:30 am
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