NHS and Community Care Act 1990
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- NHS and Community Care
Act 1990
- Purpose
- This piece of legislation brought about massive changes within the statutory structure of care. It ended a long-standing state monopoly on provision of statutory health and social care services.
- Instead
it introduced an ‘internal market’ in public care provision. This meant that
the state became an ‘enabler’, rather than the main provider, of public access
to statutory and non-statutory care services.
- This boosted the role and influence of private and voluntary sector providers in the UK care system.
- It ushered in an era of community care for adults with social care and support needs.
- Community Care
- The idea was to allow adults with chronic or long-term care needs to be able to given the support needed at home and to remain in their homes, rather than being put into a state-run institution.
- Every local authority is now legally bound to assess the care needs of any person with a physical disability, disabling illness, terminal illness, sensory impairment, learning disability or mental health problem.
- The NHS Community Care Act continues to support the provision of both community-based care and its delivery by a mixed economy of care providers.
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