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The 1995 domiciliary care provider study
— introduction | | Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of York; Nuffield Institute for Health |
| Journal title | The Mixed Economy of Care Bulletin, 5, October 1996 |
| Pages | p 4 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Commercial care ; Voluntary agencies ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The 1995 domiciliary care provider study, the focus of this Bulletin, complements the study of independent sector providers of residential care undertaken by PSSRU in 1994 (in Bulletin 4). The four core aims of the study were: to describe the main features of provider organisations including legal status, ownership and control, funding sources, age and degree of development, services provided and client groups served; to examine the nature of provider motivations, the incentives and constraints in operation; to describe how local authorities employ incentives and constraints in order to manage the supply side of social care markets; and to examine the general effects on providers of the development of the mixed economy. Two analyses were undertaken of the data: the first is based on data derived from 106 postal questionnaire respondents and 55 interviewees; and the second is based on a sample drawn from the postal questionnaire. The articles that follow summarise the principal findings, which will be available as two companion papers entitled: Purchasing domiciliary care: the provider perspective; and Purchasing domiciliary care: provider characteristics and competition. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980513228 A |
| Classmark | N: PI: PK: 3F |
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