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You can't complain ...
— [the position of self-funding older people in care homes] | | Author(s) | Louise Tickle |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1716, 3 April 2008 |
| Pages | pp 26-27 |
| Source | http://www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Rights [elderly] ; Complaints [services] ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Currently, self-funding older people in care homes cannot make an independent complaint, a situation that is likely to continue for some time. Age Concern England (ACE) is one of a number of organisations lobbying for amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill going though Parliament during session 2007/08 to strengthen the complaints procedure and extend care home residents' rights. This article comments on responses by the Department of Health (DH) and government minister Ivan Lewis to these requests. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080408202 A |
| Classmark | KX: KW: IKR: QLV: TM2 * |
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