Patients' and health-care professionals' awareness of cost: a multicentre survey

Gijs I van Boxel; Bernard H van Duren; Elizabeth-Jane van Boxel; Rodney Gilbert; Paul Gilbert; Shaun Appleton

doi:10.12968/hmed.2016.77.1.42

Patients' and health-care professionals' awareness of cost: a multicentre survey

Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2016 Jan;77(1):42-5. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2016.77.1.42.

Authors

Gijs I van Boxel¹, Bernard H van Duren², Elizabeth-Jane van Boxel³, Rodney Gilbert⁴, Paul Gilbert⁵, Shaun Appleton⁶

Affiliations

¹ Specialty Trainee Year 5 in the Department of General Surgery, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe HP11 2TT.
² Academic Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedics in the Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University College London, London.
³ Specialty Trainee Year 4 in the Department of Paediatrics, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe.
⁴ Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist in the Department of Paediatrics, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton.
⁵ PhD Student and Associate Tutor in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton.
⁶ Consultant in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery in the Department of General Surgery, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe.

PMID: 26903456
DOI: 10.12968/hmed.2016.77.1.42

Abstract

Delivering cost-effective health care within the constraints of public funding is the goal of the NHS. In this study 248 health-care professionals and patients across six different hospitals were surveyed to ascertain their cost awareness. Cost awareness was poor across all groups.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Attitude of Health Personnel
Awareness*
Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data*
Health Expenditures / statistics & numerical data*
Health Personnel / psychology*
Humans
Patients / psychology*
State Medicine
United Kingdom