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| Improving care in nursing and residential homes | | Author(s) | Helen Bartlett, Stephanie Burnip |
| Journal title | Generations Review, vol 9, no 1, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 8-9 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Management [care] ; Quality. |
| Annotation | There has been a trend away from NHS and local authority long-stay care to provision by the independent sector. This paper outlines recent proposals for reform - as begun with the social services White Paper (Modernising social services, 1998) - and their likely impact on the independent sector. The existing legislation, the Registered Homes Act 1984, focuses on the structural and process aspects of care. Although the code of practice, "A better home life", developed by the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA, 1996) deals with quality of life concerns, this is only a voluntary code. Reference is made to the National Required Standards (NRSs) developed by the CPA. The need for regulation is considered both from consumers' and providers' perspectives. The obstacles to changes recommended in the NRS - room size, financial problems, and training - are discussed. The authors suggest that it is unlikely that new regulations alone will achieve the desired effect, but existing examples of good practice can be used to incorporate quality into older people's long-term care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990721217 A |
| Classmark | LHB: KW: QA: 59 |
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