English Homes

Competition in the English nursing homes market

Life and death in English nursing homes: sequestration or transition?

Issues surrounding death and dying are now beginning to receive both serious attention from researchers in a range of disciplines, and support from those organisations which fund research. This study represents an appropriate extension of this research agenda to the environment of the nursing home. Participant observation was employed to gather data in four nursing homes over a period of 411 ho...

Integrated Working for Enhanced Health Care in English Nursing Homes

BACKGROUND The increasingly complex nature of care home residents' health status means that this population requires significant multidisciplinary team input from health services. To address this, a multisector and multiprofessional enhanced healthcare programme was implemented in nursing homes across Gateshead Council in Northern England. STUDY AIMS To explore the views and experiences of pr...

The impact of competition on quality and prices in the English care homes market

This study assesses the impact of competition on quality and price in the English care/nursing homes market. Considering the key institutional features, we use a theoretical model to assess the conditions under which further competition could increase or reduce quality. A dataset comprising the population of 10,000 care homes was used. We constructed distance/travel-time weighted competition me...

The social cost of cold homes in an English city: developing a transferable policy tool.

BACKGROUND Although there is substantial epidemiological evidence implicating cold homes in death and morbidity, evidence for the UK on the nature and scale of the costs involved is fragmentary. Policy making in this area is thus not well-informed of the benefit of interventions which arises in the form of costs averted. METHODS This pilot study presents estimates of the social cost of harms ...