A comparison of in-patient mental health rehabilitation services provided by the NHS and independent sector in England: patient and service characteristics
Helen Killaspy, Christian Dalton-Locke, Mariam Adeleke, Nia Barber, Bella Branch, Caroline Sarah Clarke, Gerard Leavey, Artemis Igoumenou, Katherine Barrett, Megan Downey, Sophie Thomas, Jing Yi (Jessica) Weng, Rumana Z. Omar · 2026
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Helen Killaspy and colleagues compare inpatient mental health rehabilitation run by the National Health Service with the same care run by independent providers in England. More than 350 such services care for adults with complex psychosis, split roughly half and half between the two sectors. Whether sector changes the care patients get had not been tested at this scale.
The team recruited 411 patients from 48 NHS services. Another 172 patients came from 20 independent services. Patients, clinicians, and managers gave interviews, and records were reviewed for service traits. Cost modeling cited by guidelines had already suggested large savings if all such care sat in the public sector. Fresh patient-level data let commissioners judge whether the sectors differ in who they serve and how.
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| CREATOR | Helen Killaspy, Christian Dalton-Locke, Mariam Adeleke, Nia Barber, Bella Branch, Caroline Sarah Clarke, Gerard Leavey, Artemis Igoumenou, Katherine Barrett, Megan Downey, Sophie Thomas, Jing Yi (Jessica) Weng, Rumana Z. Omar |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 70 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |