Summary
Contents
Subject index
This book provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy. Primarily focusing on the UK, the chapters cover issues such as the policy-making process; the development of the NHS; health care governance; health promotion; and the comparative analysis of health care systems within the EU and US. Each chapter brings together social and political themes to offers a unique combination of theory, historical detail, and wider social commentary.
Meeting Long-term Health and Social Care Needs in the Community
Meeting Long-term Health and Social Care Needs in the Community
Meeting long-term health and social care needs in the community
Chapter Contents
- Introduction
- Background: the health and social care divide
- The development of a ‘Community Care’ policy
- The organisation of health and social care under the New Labour government
- The role of ‘informal carers’ in health and social care policy
- Meeting the needs of carers: practicalities and policies
- The state of social care: the need for further reform?
- Summary
Introduction
Until comparatively recently, the term ‘Cinderella services’ was ...
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