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Reforming long-term care finances — a continuing saga
Author(s)	Janice Robinson
Corporate Author	King's Fund
Journal title	Health Care UK : the King's Fund review of health policy, Winter 2000
Publisher	King's Fund, Winter 2000
Pages	pp 61-68
Keywords	Health services ; Services ; Organisation of care ; Long term ; Finance [care] ; Social policy.
Annotation	Not all of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care of the Elderly have been accepted. It remains unclear what support younger generations can expect when they are old. The two different methods of funding health services (free at the point of delivery) and social care services (means-tested) have always disadvantaged people with chronic illness or long-term disability. Successive attempts at reforming long-term care since the inception of the NHS in the 1940s have failed to deal with this problem of dual system of funding. This article examines the Government's responses to the Royal Commission, which do not appear to have come any nearer resolving the funding problem. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010124201 A
Classmark	L: I: P: 4Q: QC: TM2
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