TY - JOUR
T1 - Delayed discharge from hospital
T2 - supporting older people to exercise choice
AU - Cornes, Michelle
AU - Manthorpe, Jill
AU - Donaghy, Eddie
AU - Godfrey, Mary
AU - Hubbard, Gill
AU - Townsend, Jean
N1 - Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
PY - 2008/3/1
Y1 - 2008/3/1
N2 - The government's reimbursement policy, whereby local councils face fines if a patient cannot be discharged from hospital because they are waiting for an assessment etc, introduced new pressures into a system that was already fraught. One of the policy's aims is to allow people to exercise ‘genuine choice’ as regards their ongoing and longer-term care. Based on their research into the policy however, Michelle Cornes et al investigate whether choice really can be exercised when lying in a hospital bed.
AB - The government's reimbursement policy, whereby local councils face fines if a patient cannot be discharged from hospital because they are waiting for an assessment etc, introduced new pressures into a system that was already fraught. One of the policy's aims is to allow people to exercise ‘genuine choice’ as regards their ongoing and longer-term care. Based on their research into the policy however, Michelle Cornes et al investigate whether choice really can be exercised when lying in a hospital bed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84993081959&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/13663666200800005
DO - 10.1108/13663666200800005
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84993081959
SN - 1366-3666
VL - 12
SP - 16
EP - 20
JO - Working with Older People
JF - Working with Older People
IS - 1
ER -