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Cost of care

Robust cost models, price benchmarks, and market intelligence for care and support services.

Our sustainable pricing services provide comprehensive reviews of your commissioning. For each service, we provide:

  1. Cost models and price benchmarks configured to your local market and commissioning.

  2. Inflation forecasts and recommendations for managing the annual uplift process.

  3. An assessment of the sustainability of individual providers and the overall local market.

  4. An extensive range of supporting evidence about your commissioning and marketplace.

A key feature of our sustainable pricing services is that we do not simply provide cost models in isolation from local commissioning, nor take a national model and minimally adapt it to a local market. In our experience, the cost of care in an area cannot be considered separate from local market forces, which in turn are influenced by a range of factors not limited to:

  • Local wages, terms & conditions, and other economic factors.
  • Council commissioning framework and contractual terms.
  • Provider business models operating in the area.

In short, as well as robust cost models and price benchmarks, our sustainable pricing services give you the wider market intelligence and insights needed to make evidence-based decisions for years to come.