cost per night of treatment in a psychiatric hospital

[lazyhazydaisy]

Does anyone actually know the answer to this question? Ie, does anyone know anyone who works in the accounts department? I have been given answers ranging from £352 - £1000.

I have been here for days, not including ambulance, MRI scan, 8 'home visits' at a cost of £500 each, and loads of other stuff.

Does anyone know how I can find out? I think the Priory is £600 per night.

I would be very grateful for helpful answers only. I am absolutely devastated by this entire experience and I don't think that it is odd that I would like to know how much this trauma cost?

(It is NHS, and no expense spared)

Thank you to anyone who can point me in the right direction. I have considered writing to the local MP on the basis that they might feel obliged to give an actual figure, from the accounts department.

103 days

I was told that a place in a mother and baby unit costs around £800 per night. I think it must vary around the country though.

Sorry you are there, hope you get well soon

Someone else just told me that it was £368 per night.
And £10 per day for the kennels.

You could make a freedom of information request from the trust. £350-450 is probably in the ball park, but it will be significantly higher if you were receiving additional nursing observations, or in an IPCU.

Have you asked someone to sit down with you and explain why the decisions that were made, were made, at each point?

Hope you're OK.

Is there a reason why the cost matters to you?

The cost appals me.
We haven't factored in the lawyers yet.
I think that the MP will take some notice, if only on cost grounds!

These things are expensive. It sounds like (from this and your other thread) you are saying that you should not have been given the care that you were, and so that is why you are looking at the cost of it.

It might be helpful to ask to meet with someone eg your consultant from your stay, and ask them to explain to you what the reasons were for each decision taken.

The cost of it should tell you that they are not keeping you in for 103 nights for no reason - maybe start taking the meds and spend your energy on getting better x

Do you not want to be there daisy?

Approx £500 per night but that is only the bed

This is a separate thread, focussing on the cost. I will try to keep this thread based on finding out on cost. If anyone wants to pm me for (not advice, but) any information that I can give than please pm me.

I am going home tomorrow, a long public transport haul so wish me luck. I will have a visit on Good Friday by a member of the chaos team at noon. I was asked if I wanted her to visit and I asked her to make clear if I had any choice in the matter, and if I did not have any choice, I would prefer not to be patronised by the possibility.

I agreed that I had no option but for this person to turn up on Good Friday at noon, and, to give her credit, she did acknowledge the failure of grammar.

I will return here on Saturday, have the two bank holidays to try and relax a bit, and possibly return to the language course since the threat of forced injection. I agreed to meet a psychologist to discuss events since 15th December.

Clearly the cost of incarceration are fairly high. The registrar said that I would have to actually know someone in accounts. I think that I am going to ask my MP to find out the cost.

I feel so devastated by this experience that I would rather keep any lack of suppport to my other thread.

(I also cannot leave this place until the situation with my dog, in kennels since the police brutality, paid for by taxpayer, is resolved. The men who run the kennels are great; they treat her like family. I am not going to put the dog through anymore upheaval until l have answers to my questions. It is not fair on her and she is (not in great health but adorable and due for a happy life with good management of diet).

I would appreciate any information from anyone who works in accounts in nhs departments. Would you advise that I go through my GP with that route?

Thank you for those who have made helpful comments. The psychiatrist wants to discharge me on next Friday but i feel that I need to look into the previous medical notes, the dramatic changes in diagnoses over one week, the majority opinion of the nursing staff who want me discharged, and most of all the affect on my son.

I also think that it would be unreasonable to 'discharge' me. I have so many questions to ask, and I don't get answers.

Any info on cost very welcome. The psychiatrist is now desperate to discharge me, just when I would like a discussion with him about events since 15th Dec 2011.

Any help from anyone who works in accounts deeply appreciated.

LHD.

You have had information on cost in this thread. The precise amount will depend on exactly where you are, but how will knowing that amount exactly make a difference? Even if you believe that there was no justification for you being in hospital (as your other thread seems to indicate), it isnt as simple as saying that the money would not have been spent if you were not in hospital. Many of the costs asscoiated with someone being in a hospital bed are fixed - once the hospital is set up and staff employed they still had the staff to pay, whether you were there or not.

Whether you are an inpatient or not shouldnt make a difference to whether people will talk to you about the reasons for your admission and care.

Daisy can I just point out that posting here is free, but dictating the answers is not part of it? Within basic rules of decency everyone is entitled to reply as they seem fit. You can decide to disregard anything that doesn't help or suit you.

I have just read that I night in intensive care is/was £1500. Does anyone know how I can find out the figure for my 'care'?

Please feel entitled to reply as they fit in answer to my question.

I think I will write to my MP and ask him to make a FoI request.
Any other ideas?

You know the rough figures for a bed day.
The hospital (or anyone else) wont be able to give you a full figure for your care, because that isnt the way that they store information. A private hospital would itemise everything in order to bill you, but that just doesnt happen in the NHS.