The NHS English National Service Framework for Older People: opportunities and risks
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The NHS English National Service framework for older people: opportunities and risks.
The English National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People conforms to the emerging pattern of NSFs as hybrids of policy and evidence, drafted and edited within the Department of Health, albeit with external advisory input. Physicians welcome its much-needed focus on the needs of older people, but its dynamic differs from that underlying the evolution of comprehensive services to date, raisi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-2-139