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| The role of the Macmillan carer in a new community care service | | Author(s) | Claire Ferguson, Catherine Nelson, Penny Rhodes |
| Journal title | International Journal of Palliative Nursing, vol 4, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 6-13 |
| Keywords | Care support workers ; Home nursing ; Community care ; Pain ; Terminal care. |
| Annotation | Care in the community has become a central feature of government policy for health and social care in the 1990s. There is now widespread interest in the provision of palliative care services in the community and domiciliary settings. In 1995, Macmillan Cancer Relief embarked on a programme of development projects concerned to provide support in the home to patients with palliative care needs, together with their informal carers. The key workers in this scheme are specially trained health care assistants, known as Macmillan Carers. An evaluation of the English schemes has been conducted, and this paper draws on one distinct element of the study. Based on interviews with 37 Macmillan Carers, the paper highlights the following key issues: the role of the qualified and unqualified nurse; the implications of the health and social care divide for this type of service; and wider concepts of formal and informal care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001220204 A |
| Classmark | QRS: N4: PA: CT7: LV * |
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