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Access to health care in nursing homes
— a survey in one English health authority | | Author(s) | Geraldine O'Dea, Susan Helen Kerrison, Allyson Mary Pollock |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 8, no 3, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp 180-185 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; General practice ; Speech therapy ; Physiotherapy ; Chiropody services - general ; Charges ; Merton ; Sutton ; Wandsworth. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to establish the arrangements for provision of general practitioner (GP), nursing advice, chiropody, physiotherapy and speech and language services to nursing homes and to establish the charging policies for those services. A survey of the managers of 51 nursing homes registered with Merton, Sutton, and Wandsworth Health Authority was conducted. Results showed that 20% of the homes had no regular GP visits, and half the homes had no planned medication reviews. Only 20% had access to all health care services. Thirty-three homes used private or both private and NHS chiropody services, and seventeen homes used private or both private and NHS physiotherapy services. The findings suggest that there are inequalities in access to health care services in nursing homes. Moreover, there has been a deterioration in access to and levels of provision of NHS nursing and physiotherapy since the mid-1980s. The study concluded that the new regulatory framework for older people must include systems for monitoring the provision of health services. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000608401 A |
| Classmark | LHB: L5: BW:LO: LOA: L9: QEJ: 82LP: 82LU: 82LX |
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