BMA - Community care

Community care

Working with carers: guidelines for good practice
This guidance has been produced by the BMA’s Committee on Community Care to assist doctors in their work with carers. It outlines who carers are, the legislation and government guidance which relates to services for carers, how doctors can help and support carers, the special needs of young carers, dealing with issues of confidentiality, other support and other sources of information on caring issues.

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill - Second reading brief, House of Commons, January 2007
The BMA's comments on the public and patient involvement sections of the bill. We support the Government's intention to strengthen the involvement of PPI in the planning and delivery of their local health services.

GP - Providing healthcare closer to home
This paper looks at proposals in the Department of Health's White Paper, "Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services," to deliver more services in local and community settings.

Social care - long term care
The BMA calls on the Government to follow the Scottish example and introduce full funding for the personal care element of long term care of the elderly

Improving the management of long-term conditions in the face of system reform
The government’s white paper 'Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services' reinforces central ambitions to better manage long-term conditions. This paper by the Health Policy and Economic Research Unit aims to explore how these ambitions might be taken forward in practice.

Response to Department of Health consultation: National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS funded nursing care in England, September 2006
The BMA welcomes the opportunity to respond to much needed guidelines for a national framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS funded nursing care in England.