Care in The Community - 1989 White Paper 'Caring For People'

1989 White Paper 'Caring For People'

In 1989 the government published its response to the Griffiths Report in the White Paper Caring for People: Community Care in the next Decade and Beyond. This was a companion paper to Working for Patients and shared the same general principles:

  • A belief that State provision was beaureaucratic and inefficient. That the State should be an 'enabler' rather than a provider of care. The UK state at this time was actually funding, providing and purchasing care for the population
  • Separation of the purchaser / provider roles
  • Devolution of budgets and budgetary control

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