Amies-Cul, Ben; Luengo-Fernandez, Ramon; Scarborough, Peter - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-9
1998, for the first time the government mandated NHS trusts to submit estimates of their costs of service, known as … reference costs. These have informed a wide range of health economic evaluations and important functions in the health service …, such as setting prices. Reference costs are collected by progressively disaggregating budgets top-down into disease and …