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Peer support in mental health care: is it good value for money?

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  • Trachtenberg, Marija
  • Parsonage, Michael
  • Shepherd, Geoff
  • Boardman, Jed

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Peer support workers - people with their own lived experience of mental illness - provide mutually supportive relationships in secondary mental health services. Increasing numbers are being employed, both in this country and elsewhere. But good quality evidence on the effectiveness of this form of service delivery is in short supply and even less is known about its cost-effectiveness. This paper makes a first attempt at assessing whether peer support provides value for money, looking specifically at whether peer support workers can reduce psychiatric inpatient bed use. Because of the very high cost of inpatient care, the savings that result from even small changes in bed use may be sufficient to outweigh the costs of employing peer workers.

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  • Trachtenberg, Marija & Parsonage, Michael & Shepherd, Geoff & Boardman, Jed, 2013. "Peer support in mental health care: is it good value for money?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 60793, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. Samson Tse & Emily WS Tsoi & Bridget Hamilton & Mary O’Hagan & Geoff Shepherd & Mike Slade & Rob Whitley & Melissa Petrakis, 2016. "Uses of strength-based interventions for people with serious mental illness: A critical review," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 62(3), pages 281-291, May.
    2. Eilish M Burke & Melissa Pyle & Karen Machin & Anthony P Morrison, 2018. "Providing mental health peer support 1: A Delphi study to develop consensus on the essential components, costs, benefits, barriers and facilitators," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 64(8), pages 799-812, December.
    3. Knapp, Martin & Andrew, Alison & McDaid, David & Iemmi, Valentina & McCrone, Paul & Park, A-La & Parsonage, Michael & Boardman, Jed & Shepherd, Geoff, 2014. "Investing in recovery: making the business case for effective interventions for people with schizophrenia and psychosis," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 56773, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Hillary A. Robertson & Matthew G. Biel & Katherine R. Hayes & Sara Snowden & Latisha Curtis & Dominique Charlot-Swilley & Elyssa S. Clauson & Arrealia Gavins & Caslin M. Sisk & Noel Bravo & Erica E. C, 2023. "Leveraging the Expertise of the Community: A Case for Expansion of a Peer Workforce in Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(11), pages 1-18, May.

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