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Reimbursement - a look back and a look forward — [hospital discharge]
Author(s)	Christine Paley
Journal title	Journal of Integrated Care, vol 12, issue 5, October 2004
Pages	pp 23-29
Source	http://www.pavpub.com
Keywords	Discharge [hospitals] ; Delayed discharge ; Costs [care] ; Social Services Departments.
Annotation	The impact of reimbursement on delayed transfers and whole-systems planning is considered. The author argues that making hospital discharge work with the focus only on the interface between health and social care will have limited and short-term results. More radical cultural change is needed to tackle the problem of an ageing society. The paper draws on recent thinking which challenges the way in which services are currently provided to older people, and calls for new ways for services to be commissioned and provided. The author advocates changes towards community-based processes and pathways, across a wide range of services and within a much broader whole-systems framework, to support independence. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-041206210 A
Classmark	LD:QKJ: LD:QKM: QDC: PF
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