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Negotiating needs, access and gatekeeping — developments in health and community care policies in the UK and the rights of disabled and older citizens
Author(s)	Kirstein Rummery, Caroline Glendinning
Journal title	Critical Social Policy, vol 19, no 3, August 1999
Pages	pp 335-352
Keywords	Rights [elderly] ; Physical disabilities ; Needs [elderly] ; Health services ; Community care ; Social policy ; Social surveys.
Annotation	The cumulative consequences of community care policies in the UK have resulted in a move from universal access to NHS services, to discretionary access to residual local authority services. Drawing on an empirical study of the experiences of disabled and older people in obtaining access to community care assessments, the authors argue that the traditional "gatekeeping" activities of professionals have been augmented by a range of managerial and bureaucratic gatekeeping procedures. They examine the implications of these additional layers of gatekeeping for disabled and older people's status and rights as citizens. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990826262 A
Classmark	IKR: BN: IK: L: PA: TM2: 3F
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