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The Coughlan case
— continuing health care | | Author(s) | Alan Ng |
| Journal title | Geriatric Medicine, vol 33, no 10, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 13-14, 16-18 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Closure ; Residents [care homes] ; Long term ; National Health Service ; Finance [care] ; Law. |
| Annotation | When the care of Pamela Coughlan, a tetraplegic with severe physical disabilities, was transferred to social services after the closure of purpose-built NHS unit Mardon House, the decision by North and East Devon Health Authority was challenged on six different grounds. Any, if established, were sufficient to render the decision unlawful. In the first of a series of articles on continuing health care, the author discusses each of the six reasons in more detail. The reasons are as follows: nursing as "health care" and as "social care"; eligibility criteria; the promise of a home for life; human rights; assessment and placement; and consultation. The appeal by the Health Authority was dismissed, as it had failed on the first four reasons. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031121201 A |
| Classmark | LHB: 5YW: KX: 4Q: L4: QC: VR |
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