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to amend Part VII of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and Part III of the Local Government Finance Act 1982; to amend the National Health Service Act 1977 and the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; to amend Part VIII of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984; to make further provision concerning the provision of accommodation and other welfare services by local authorities and the powers of the Secretary of State as respects the social services functions of such authorities; to make provision for and in connection with the establishment of a Clinical Standards Advisory Group; to repeal the Health Services Act 1976; and for connected purposes.
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by changing their internal structure, so that local authority departments assess the needs of the local population and then purchase the necessary services from 'providers'. To become 'providers' in the internal market, health organisations became NHS trusts, competing with each other. Community care
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services or other types of support get the services they are entitled to. Patients have their needs and circumstances assessed and the results determine whether or not care or social services will be provided. This also ensures that the people giving the care follow a certain set of rules called the
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An Act to make further provision about health authorities and other bodies constituted in accordance with the National Health Service Act 1977; to provide for the establishment of National Health Service trusts; to make further provision about the financing of the practices of medical practitioners;
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resources can be taken into account during the assessment process, but if it is deemed that services are required, those services must be provided by law: services cannot be withdrawn at a later date if resources become limited.
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ensures that people in need of long-term care are now able to live either in their own home, with adequate support, or in a residential home setting.
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into the supply of healthcare in the United Kingdom, making the state an 'enabler' rather than a supplier of health and social care provision.
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as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from
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to assess people for social care and support to ensure that people who need
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Quality of care: testing some measures in homes for elderly people
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Text of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
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Health and Social Care, Mark Walsh et al., Collins, 2006,
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Finally, the Act made provision for the establishment of
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
Royal assent
Text of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
legislation.gov.uk
internal market
local authorities
community care
Local authority
district health authorities
local authorities
GP Fundholding
family health services authorities
family practitioner committees
NHS trusts
Health Services Act 1980
Care Act 2014
Care programme approach
National Health Service Act 1977
c 49
National Health Service Act 2006
c 41
"National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990"
ISBN
0-00-720040-4
"National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990"
The Health Foundation
Preface in Quality of care: testing some measures in homes for elderly people, pp 12 – 18
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