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The twilight zone?
— NHS services for older people in residential and nursing homes | | Author(s) | Sally Jacobs, Caroline Glendinning |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 2, no 2, June 2001 |
| Pages | pp 3-12 |
| Keywords | Health services ; National Health Service ; Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Nursing homes. |
| Annotation | Since the transfer of responsibility for funding nursing and residential home care for less affluent older people to social services departments (SSDs) in 1993, nursing and residential care has been widely assumed to constitute part of "social care" services. This obscures the fact that residents of nursing and residential care homes frequently have substantial and complex healthcare needs. The National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) prioritises reinvestment in intermediate care services, building on expectations in the NHS Plan, that residential and nursing homes will play a major role in development of these services. This expectation has been further reinforced by the Concordat with the private and voluntary healthcare provider sector. This article reviews the available evidence on NHS services to homes, highlighting some of the priorities which primary care groups (PCGs) in England (local health groups in Wales) will need to consider if they are to develop integrated and good quality services for frail older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010718201 A |
| Classmark | L: L4: KX: KW: LHB |
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