Table 15Intervention cost of CCBT

Cost elementResource use estimate and respective unit cost (2009 prices)Total cost per person (2009 prices)
Therapist’s time130 minutes per person (TITOV2009A) £75 per hour of client contact (clinical psychologist; Curtis, 2009)£162.5
Hardware£309 per PC per year (Kaltenthaler et al., 2006)
Cost divided by 75 people treated with CCBT and adjusted for 35 weeks (time horizon of analysis)		£2.8
Capital overheads£2,053 per PC per year (Kaltenthaler et al., 2006)
Cost divided by 75 people treated with CCBT and adjusted for 35 weeks (time horizon of analysis)		£18.4
Licence fee0 (Worry Programme not available in clinical practice)0
Server/website hosting cost£550–£800 for a ten-page website annually
Cost divided by 85,000 people, representing 5% of the estimated 1.7 million people with GAD in England and Wales; latter estimate based on a 4.7% prevalence of GAD (McManus et al., 2009) and a population of 35.3 million people aged 16–64 years in England and Wales (ONS, 2009).		Negligible
TOTAL: £183.7

From: 6, LOW-INTENSITY PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS

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