What is it about?
How diagnosis is recorded in a Pediatric assessment unit differs from a genuine inpatient context. Assessment units therefore require their own unique tariff.
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Why is it important?
The English HRG tariff contained many serious flaws and this is one of them
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The HRG tariff was a central policy in the implementation of the purchaser provider split in England. As such no one in the NHS was allowed to question the validity of the tariff, and this led to policy-correct views of how costs ought to behave which did not hold in the real world. Part of a much longer series on multiple flaws in the English HRG tariff, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Costs of paediatric assessment, British Journal of Healthcare Management, February 2011, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2011.17.2.57.
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