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Guidance on free nursing care in nursing homes
— [with annex]: A guide to NHS funded nursing care in nursing homes | | Corporate Author | Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | Department of Health, London, 25 September 2001 |
| Pages | 32 pp (Health service circular HSC 2001/17: Local authority circular LAC (2001)2 |
| Source | Department of Health, PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH. Website: http://www.doh.gov.uk/publications/coinh.html |
| Keywords | Circulars ; Department of Health [legislation and circulars] ; Camping ; National Health Service ; Nurses ; Finance [care] ; Nursing homes ; Residents [care homes]. |
| Annotation | This circular advises on the National Health Service's (NHS) responsibilities for arranging care by a registered nurse for some people in nursing homes from 1 October 2001, and the arrangements for transferring responsibility from councils to the NHS from 1 April 2003 for the care by a registered nurse of nursing home residents. It also advises on the arrangements for care by a registered nurse of nursing home residents whose preserved rights to higher rates of Income Support (IS), whose residential care management and nursing care will be transferred to councils from 8 April 2002 and whose nursing home care will become and NHS responsibility from 1 April 2003. Appendices include budgetary arrangements, funding allocations to health authorities, notes on assessment and admission to care homes for older people, and complaints procedures. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011005001 C |
| Classmark | 6I: VK9: HSC(2001)26: L4: QTE: QC: LHB: KX * |
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