A Scoping Review of the Costs, Consequences, and Wider Impacts of Residential Care Home Closures in a UK Context

Table 2

Summary of costs of care home closure papers.

Author/year	Aims and context	Region/council	Source	Primary focus	Perspective	Methods	Data	Costs
Read and Crawford 2015 [6]	Examines the future residential care home services in England and the impact on the NHS	All of England	Report	Costs	Not specified	Economic analysis model	Data were collected from secondary sources. Office of national statistics, local government association, the health and social care information centre, and the consumer price index	The cost of 37,000 lost care sector beds to the NHS would be £3 billion per year if care homes continued to be underfunded