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National service framework for older people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 3 booklets in pack.
- Place of publication:
- London
This pack contains three booklets: 'National service framework for older people', 'National service framework for older people: executive summary', and 'Medicines and older people'. The national service framework for older people is a ten year programme of action linking services to support independence and promote good health, specialised services for key conditions, and culture change so that all older people and their carers are always treated with respect, dignity and fairness. The overall aim is to ensure consistent services across the country and reduce variations in standards and service levels. The document sets out standards for: rooting out age discrimination; person centred care; intermediate care; general hospital care; stroke; falls; mental health in older people; and the promotion of heath and active life in older age. Sections on local delivery of services, ensuring progress, and national support to underpin local action follow. The booklet on medicines and older people focuses in more detail on implementing medicines related aspects of the framework.
National service framework for older people interim report on age discrimination, April 2002
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Audit of the problems that older people experience in accessing health and social care services. Standards proposed include the early intervention and programme of action to address issues of age discrimination. The national service framework for older people is a programme of action linking services to support independence and promote good health, specialised services for key conditions, and culture change so that all older people and their carers are always treated with respect, dignity and fairness.
Intermediate care: moving forward; national service framework for older people supporting implementation
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report argues that intermediate care, a range of services to promote faster recovery from illness, prevent faster recovery from illness, reduce hospital admissions and to maximise independence, is vital to improve the health and well being of older people. The national service framework for older people is a ten year programme of action linking services to support independence and promote good health, specialised services for key conditions, and culture change so that all older people and their carers are always treated with respect, dignity and fairness. The overall aim is to ensure consistent services across the country and reduce variations in standards and service levels.
Social services: achievement and challenge; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, March 1997
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Government White Paper on the future of social services.