The current system of caring for older people in Scotland needs to change to avoid an unsustainable burden being placed on hospital services in the near future, warns a panel commissioned by the UK Labour party to examine the proposal to merge health and social care.The party, which polls ...
Professional perceptions of joint working in primary care and social care services for older people in Scotland. Journal of Interprofessional Care 2005 Aug;19(4):371-85.Hubbard, G. & Themessl-Huber, M. (2005). Professional perceptions of joint working in primary care and social care services ...
It has since devolved into four separate entities, NHS England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (NHS England, 2016), with the aim to ensure each meets the needs of their own local community by utilizing local resources. Devolved nations have developed their own methods of health delivery....
Scotland's decision on long term care challenges a centralised NHS and treasury. The Scottish Executive's dramatic decision last month not to charge elderly people for personal and social care,1 in contrast to the decision of the United... AM Pollock - Bmj 被引量: 19发表: 2001年...
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Curiously, however, when the government emphasizes self-reliance in the agenda of healthy aging, people complain that the government is evading responsibility, and it has sparked a series of societal concerns about the feasibility of relying on self-care and family support for gerontological mental ...
This article explores the implementation of health and social care policy designed to improve partnership working between the health and social care sectors in the UK. Devolution has allowed Scotland to develop its own policies in several key areas. Given the potential for policy divergence, health ...
THE condition of the Scottish peasantry had undergone only perceptible amelioration from the commencement of the fourteenth to the early part of the eighteenth century. Writing in 1661, Dr John Ray, the naturalist, who then visited Scotland, remarks: "The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots,...