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Partnership working and eligibility criteria
— what can we learn from the implementation of guidance on continuing health care? | | Author(s) | Stephen Abbott, Helen Lewis |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 36, no 5, October 2002 |
| Pages | pp 532-543 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Long term ; Services ; Domiciliary services ; Coordination ; Usage [services] ; Needs [elderly]. |
| Annotation | Current government policy places great importance both on clinical governance and on partnership working between health and social services. Separately and together, these policy emphases require greater clarity in and between organisations about who should provide what care where than has often been achieved in the past. A study on the implementation of continuing health care policies suggests that clarity about appropriate long-term health and social care provision was difficult to achieve in the 1990s quasi-markets, because there were too few financial and structural incentives for agencies to co-operate in developing and implementing precise and comprehensive eligibility criteria. The problematic interplay between financial and structural factors is being addressed by a number of government initiatives designed to stimulate joint working, although the difficulty of drawing a clear boundary between health care (free at the point of delivery) and social care (which can be means-tested) remains. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021023207 A |
| Classmark | L: 4Q: I: N: QAJ: QLD: IK |
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