Methods development
We have established a reputation for methodological excellence over the last forty years. Our work on the economics of social care and mental health provision has generated many direct approaches to support evaluations of policy and practice from local authorities, third sector organisations and government bodies.
We continue to review and develop methods to support our research.
Highlights
- We developed the Client Services Receipt Inventory, which has been used in over 500 studies
- We developed new social care modules of national surveys (Health Survey for England and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing)
- We drew together data sourcesacross adult social care in England
- We provided guidance on discrete choice experiments for adult social care
Current studies
CASCID‑2 builds on the Catalogue of Social Care Individualised Data (CASCID), a free online resource launched in 2022 to make social care measures more findable by collating what is collected, where, and how.
The Catalogue provides links to the organisations that hold data but does not host raw data.
The PECUNIA study aims to establish standardised costing and outcome assessment measures for optimised national healthcare provision in the European Union.
This scoping review is exploring the challenges of recruitment to adult social care research, and seeking to identify whether difficulties identified have gotten worse over time.