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| Unmet needs - a contradiction in terms? | | Author(s) | Esther Coren, Michael Noble |
| Journal title | Social Services Research, no 1, 1998 |
| Publisher | University of Birmingham, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 1-13 |
| Keywords | Community care ; Awareness [services] ; Needs [elderly] ; Management [care] ; Attitude ; Oxfordshire. |
| Annotation | Among the key changes to be brought about by the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 implemented in 1993, was the duty placed on local authorities to assess individually those in need of community care services, and to design packages of services in accordance with identified needs. This study examined unmet need in Oxfordshire County Council's Social Service Department (SSD) from the professional perspective. It focuses on the views of care managers on: personal care versus housework; day care; respite care; social needs; access and choice; and unmet need and the role of relatives. The authors comment on the implications of the House of Lords judgment, R v Gloucestershire County Council ex parte Barry, which may well alter the way in which unmet need is defined. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990202230 A |
| Classmark | PA: QLA: IK: QA: DP: 8O |
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