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Approaches to improving quality in nursing and residential homes
— recent developments in Australia and their relevance to the UK | | Author(s) | Helen Bartlett, Duncan Boldy |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 2, no 3, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp 3-14 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Performance ; Quality ; Social policy ; Comparison ; Australia ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Concerns about standards and quality of care in the nursing and residential home sector have exercised policymakers, managers and practitioners in both Australia and the UK for some years. While Australia has a relatively young population, it has in place a coherent "aged care" policy. The UK, with a rapidly ageing population profile, has only recently made a serious policy commitment to health and social care for older people. There are valuable lessons to be learnt from Australia's national outcome standards and monitoring systems for care homes, and its more recent introduction of a care homes accreditation system. Apart from identifying any issues associated with implementation of such approaches to quality improvement, it is important to establish whether they have an impact on the quality of care and life of older residents. As the UK moves to implementing national minimum standards in 2002, lessons from Australia are timely, and may help inform best practice and policy in long-term care in the future. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011019208 A |
| Classmark | LHB: KW: 5H: 59: TM2: 48: 7YA: 8 |
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