Setting the scene

Sara Groogan

pp. 9-23

in: Ann Long (ed), Interaction for practice in community nursing, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Abstract

The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and its associated White Papers have emphasised the importance of caring for people in the community, which will be accompanied by reduced dependency on secondary health care provision. Subsequently a new philosophy of care has emerged, based on the principle that care should be shared with individuals and that whenever possible, care should be provided as close to the person's home as possible (Sines, 1995).