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Home comfort
- Authors:
- HENWOOD Melanie, WADDINGTON Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.11.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The independent sector is increasingly providing emotional and practical support for people in intermediate care. Assesses the success of, 'Home from Hosptial', a scheme from the Red Cross.
Long-term care: from public responsibility to private good
- Authors:
- PLAYER Stewart, POLLOCK Allyson M.
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 21(2), May 2001, pp.231-255.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The neo-liberal assault on the welfare state has not always been direct. The acknowledged popularity of the NHS has resulted in governments using covert means to undermine its core principles, namely universality and equity. Long-term care with its vulnerable client base is an important example of how care has become a private responsibility with little or no debate or discussion. Using the social security regulations, the Conservative government of the early 1980s pump-primed with public funds the massive expansion of private nursing and residential care, to the extent that the past 20 years has witnessed the evolution of a significant new economic market sector. This article charts the trajectory and structure of the market in long-term care provision, from its "cottage industry" beginnings to increasing dominance by generic, often publicly-quoted multinational corporations. It shows how the privatisation of funding was accompanied by transferring responsibility for payment of care from central government to local authorities in 1993, and how the introduction of eligibility criteria and the shrinking of public provision has made care a private and personal responsibility. Government is now encouraging companies to diversify into higher-cost specialist areas such as diagnostics, acute psychiatric care and acute hospital and intermediate care, with long-term care increasingly seen as a lower profit "core" industrial package predicated on basic services and casualised, low wage labour. The commodification of the care process is now being extended to other parts of the NHS and has serious implications for the health and well-being of the whole population and not just for the most frail and vulnerable.
Bed spread
- Author:
- LAST Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 10.8.00, 2000, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The use of independent nursing homes for both terminal and intermediate care has successfully relieved the pressure on hospital beds in Liverpool. This article describes how.
Intermediate care - responding to an exciting challenge
- Author:
- WITTON Marion
- Journal article citation:
- Caring Times, July 2000, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The government says it is willing to involve independent providers in intermediate care. When change is in the air, the first consideration must always be the welfare of residents and patients.
Engaging the independent sector in the development of intermediate care
- Author:
- BORKETT Phillip
- Publisher:
- Independent Healthcare Association
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Intermediate care potentially offers older people appropriate and quality services as an alternative to hospital admission or to aid a speedy discharge from hospital. Properly organised intermediate care schemes can provide a period of intense professional support when and where it is needed, as well as contribute to the effectiveness of the whole health and social care system. Such schemes put the service user first, and work to create positive partnerships between the various agencies who have responsibilities for different parts of the service; and fundamentally, between the independent and public sector health and social care communities.