Commissioning care services for older people: the view from care managers, users and carers

Patricia Ware, Tihana Matosevic, Brian Hardy, Martin Knapp, Jeremy Kendall, Julien Forder (2003)

Please note: this is a legacy publication from CPEC (formely PSSRU at LSE).

Ageing and Society 23 4 411-428

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X02001137

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=163069

Available online: 25 June 2003

Abstract

One of the key objectives of the community care reforms of 1990 in the United Kingdom was the development of a flourishing independent sector alongside good quality public services. The aims of the reforms were to increase the available range of option