Date published: 2006/03/19
The BBC says:
The government hopes to cut hospital deficits in England by reducing the number of emergency admissions for chronic illnesses.
The health secretary is set to announce patients with illnesses like asthma and heart disease could be better cared for by community nurses in their own homes.
The measures are intended to save the NHS up to £1.3bn a year.
But nursing leaders said ministers must first ensure staff levels are adequate, which will require further funding.
"We're very supportive of care moving from the hospital to the community but there's got to be the capacity," said Dr Beverly Malone, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing.
"It's not a cheaper response."
Do you get the feeling that the government is getting ready to just dump chronically ill people "into the community", in the same way that the previous Tory government just dumped mentally ill people "into the community". Or perhaps they are going to charge a large fee for these patients to actually see a nurse, claiming that this is not really medical care.
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