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- Title
Inpatient transfer policy has been an ‘abject failure’.
- Authors
Duffin, Christian
- Abstract
The article reports on the failure of the transfer policy for inpatients enacted by the government agency Care Quality Commission in Great Britain. Topics discussed include a brief overview of the Winterbourne View scandal of 2011 which precipitated the enactment of the transfer policy, and the problems faced by authorities in the implementation of the transfer policy. It also presented a timeline which depicts the changes being made in the service care system after the scandal.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; HOSPITAL admission &; discharge; MEDICAL quality control; MEDICAL personnel; NATIONAL health services; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; NURSING care facilities; PATIENT abuse
- Publication
Learning Disability Practice, 2014, Vol 17, Issue 10, p10
- ISSN
1465-8712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7748/ldp.17.10.10.s9