Guidance

Best start in life: cost-effective commissioning

A resource to help local commissioners provide cost-effective interventions for children aged up to 5 and pregnant women.

Documents

Best start in life: cost-effectiveness and ROI of interventions

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Best start in life: return on investment tool

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The return on investment tool pulls together evidence on the effectiveness and associated costs for a number of interventions aimed at providing children with the best start in life.

The interactive resource allows results to be tailored to local situations based on the knowledge of the user. The tool is accompanied by a report providing further details on how the tool was constructed.

Local authorities and clinical commissioning groups can use results from the tool to protect and improve the health of their local populations when making commissioning decisions.

This video will help you to use the resource.

Best Start in Life ROI introductory video

Published 8 March 2018
Last updated 18 April 2018 + show all updates
  1. Added introductory video.

  2. Updated the way that packages of postnatal depression interventions have been modelled and presented in the tool, which may alter the interpretation of results for those packages.

  3. First published.