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Marina Soley-Bori1, Raghu Lingam2, Rose-Marie Satherley3
1Department of Population Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK marina.soley_bori@kcl.ac.uk.
Insights
The Children and Young People's Health Partnership (CYPHP) model improves integrated care for children with common health issues. This economic evaluation assesses its cost-effectiveness and impact on health outcomes for children and young people.
Area of Science:
- Health Services Research
- Pediatric Health
- Health Economics
Background:
- The Children and Young People's Health Partnership (CYPHP) Evelina London Model of Care offers integrated healthcare for children and young people (CYP).
- It incorporates population health management, specialist multidisciplinary clinics, and professional training resources.
- Implemented in South London since April 2018, its effectiveness is being evaluated.
Purpose of the Study:
- To conduct a within-trial and beyond-trial economic evaluation of the CYPHP model.
- To compare the resource use and health outcome impacts of CYPHP against enhanced usual care.
- To assess cost-effectiveness from National Health Service/Personal Social Service and societal perspectives.
Main Methods:
- A cluster randomised controlled trial involving 90,000 CYP under 16 across 23 general practitioner (GP) practice clusters.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of a sample of 2,138 CYP with asthma, eczema, or constipation.
- Health outcomes measured using the Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory and Child Health Utility 9 Dimensions (CHU-9D) for quality-adjusted life years (QALYs).
- A 10-year long-term model to extend the analytical horizon.
Main Results:
- Economic evaluation will quantify resource use and health outcome impacts.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis will determine the value of CYPHP for specific pediatric conditions.
- Cost-benefit analysis will integrate parental well-being using the Warwick-Edinburg Mental Well-being Scale.
Conclusions:
- The economic evaluation will provide crucial data on the value of integrated care models like CYPHP.
- Findings will inform decision-making for community-based pediatric healthcare, particularly in urban settings.
- Results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, and community events.
Introduction:
The Children and Young People's Health Partnership (CYPHP) Evelina London Model of Care is a new approach to integrated care delivery for children and young people (CYP) with common health complaints and chronic conditions. CYPHP includes population health management (services shaped by data-driven understanding of population and individual needs, applied in this case to enable proactive case finding and tailored biopsychosocial care), specialist clinics with multidisciplinary health teams and training resources for professionals working with CYP. This complex health system strengthening programme has been implemented in South London since April 2018 and will be evaluated using a cluster randomised controlled trial with an embedded process evaluation. This protocol describes the within-trial and beyond-trial economic evaluation of CYPHP.
Methods And Analysis:
The economic evaluation will identify, measure and value resources and health outcome impacts of CYPHP compared with enhanced usual care from a National Health Service/Personal Social Service and a broader societal perspective. The study population includes 90 000 CYP under 16 years of age in 23 clusters (groups of general practitioner (GP) practices) to assess health service use and costs, with more detailed cost-effectiveness analysis of a targeted sample of 2138 CYP with asthma, eczema or constipation (tracer conditions). For the cost-effectiveness analysis, health outcomes will be measured using the Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) using the Child Health Utility 9 Dimensions (CHU-9D) measure. To account for changes in parental well-being, the Warwick-Edinburg Mental Well-being Scale will be integrated with QALYs in a cost-benefit analysis. The within-trial economic evaluation will be complemented by a novel long-term model that expands the analytical horizon to 10 years. Analyses will adhere to good practice guidelines and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence public health reference case.
Ethics And Dissemination:
The study has received ethical approval from South West-Cornwall and Plymouth Research Ethics Committee (REC Reference: 17/SW/0275). Results will be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals, made available in briefing papers for local decision-makers, and provided to the local community through website and public events. Findings will be generalisable to community-based models of care, especially in urban settings.
Trial Registration Number:
NCT03461848.
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