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NHS funding for long term care: follow up report
- Author:
- HEALTH SERVICE OMBUDSMAN
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The problems faced by disabled and elderly people in accessing NHS funding for long term care are highlighted in the Health Service Ombudsman’s report. The report is based on evidence gathered from almost 4,000 complaints received since the publication of the Ombudsman’s first report in February 2003 and shows how, from the patient’s point of view, applying for funding for long term care has been a lengthy hit and miss process.
Index, sources and derivation of key indicators of local authority social services; key indicators graphical system 2001 data update 2: personal social services; local authority statistics - CD ROM included
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 84p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Index, sources and derivation of key indicators of local authority social services: October 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document discusses the data sources in general terms and gives information about the treatment of missing data and classification of authorities used in the key indicators graphical system.
Charging with care: how councils charge for home care
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 82p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication presents the findings of a survey of local authority home care charges. It looks at the wide variations in charges between different authorities, the different factors taken into account, the quality of charge management, and how some users of home care, particularly those on low incomes and with high care costs, can be the most disadvantaged by these arrangements. Finally the report introduces a framework which is used to diagnose inconsistencies and highlights the need for greater national guidance, particularly in the area of financial protection for the most vulnerable service users.
Index, sources and derivation of key indicators of local authority social services: October 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document discusses the data sources in general terms and gives information about the treatment of missing data and classification of authorities used in the key indicators graphical system.
Charging with care: how councils charge for home care; briefing
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper presents a summary of the findings of a survey of local authority home care charges. It looks at the wide variations in charges between different authorities, the different factors taken into account, the quality of charge management, and how some users of home care, particularly those on low incomes and with high care costs, can be the most disadvantaged by these arrangements. Finally the report introduces a framework which is used to diagnose inconsistencies and highlights the need for greater national guidance, particularly in the area of financial protection for the most vulnerable service users.
Ex parte Coughlan: follow up action; continuing health care; follow up to the Court of Appeal judgement in the case of R. v. North and East Devon Health Authority
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular setting out immediate action tht health and local authorities should take following the Court of Appeal judgement in the case of R. v. North and East Deveon Health Authority ex parte Coughlan given on 16 July 1999. This judgement confirms tht the NHS has important responsibilities for continuing in-patient care and community health services for people whose primary need is for health care. It also confirms that, in appropriate cases, local authorities may purchase the nursing care element of nursing home care and indicates that the guidance on this aspect issued to authorities in 1992 and 1995 was lawful.
Making the case for culturally appropriate community services: Puerto Rican elders and their caregivers
- Authors:
- DELGADO Melvin, TENNSTEDT Sharon
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 22(4), November 1997, pp.246-255.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Describes a study of the caregiving arrangements of 214 disabled elderly people in the USA a large northeastern city which found that the recipients of care were severely disabled, particularly in instrumental activities of daily living, yet had limited sources of informal care and used formal services minimally. The authors discuss the need to use a structural adapting approach and to develop social services that are culturally sensitive and acceptable to both elders and their caregivers.
The mental health residential care study: classification of facilities and description of residents
- Authors:
- LELLIOTT Paul, AUDINI Bernard, KNAPP Martin, CHISHOLM Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, August 1996, pp.139-147.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The NHS is no longer a virtual monopoly provider of mental health residential care. This makes it difficult to assess the volume, range and adequacy of provision. In this study facilities providing residential care in eight districts were compared on levels of staffing, staff qualifications, and the characteristics of their residents. Results found that there was great variation between districts in the number of places available per unit of the population, especially in those with 24-hour waking cover. It is suggested that one consequence of the diversification in provision of mental health residential accommodation has been a relative reduction in the proportion of provision available to the most severely disabled, particularly those who pose a risk of acting violently.
Home and community-based care: recent accomplishments and new challenges
- Author:
- HUDSON Robert B.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 7(3/4), 1996, pp.53-69.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article traces the development of home and community-based care to its current place in the worlds of health and social policy. An argument is developed to the effect that such services have by now gained both heightened policy legitimacy and organisational capacity. Building on these contentions, the articles goes on to suggest that such services should continue to gain a more prominent place within long-term care policy, and that long-term care issues deserve a more central place within social insurance policy more generally. The article concludes by suggesting that demonstrations of policy efficacy such as those that are taking place in home and community services might help to a least modestly offset the frontal assault which is currently taking place across the range of American social policy.