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There's still a good deal of muttering about a comment a few weeks ago by new NHS chief executive Simon Stevens that he was looking forward to the demise of care homes. "It would be a disappointment," he told charity Age UK's annual Later Life conference, "if in 30, 40, 50 years' time, nursing homes still existed."
Stevens enjoys casually lobbing such grenades and standing back to observe the fallout. He made a similarly provocative comment in his first weeks in the job about community hospitals, interpreted in some quarters as opposing any further closures. But his use of the term "nursing homes" has caused some confusion.
There is a clear and important difference in the UK between nursing and residential homes, though some are both. Stevens confirmed as he left the conference that he had meant all care homes, making the point that models of care change over time and could be expected to do so. We should be disappointed if they did not.
http://www.theguardian.com/social-c.../care-act-blur-distinction-health-social-care
Stevens enjoys casually lobbing such grenades and standing back to observe the fallout. He made a similarly provocative comment in his first weeks in the job about community hospitals, interpreted in some quarters as opposing any further closures. But his use of the term "nursing homes" has caused some confusion.
There is a clear and important difference in the UK between nursing and residential homes, though some are both. Stevens confirmed as he left the conference that he had meant all care homes, making the point that models of care change over time and could be expected to do so. We should be disappointed if they did not.
http://www.theguardian.com/social-c.../care-act-blur-distinction-health-social-care