title: Nursing home regulation. Shadowlands.
abstract: The healthcare of 200,000 people living in nursing homes will not be regulated by the Commission for Health Improvement or by the proposed healthcare division of the National Care Standards Commission under current proposals. This is despite the fact that patients in nursing homes are highly dependent and many would previously have been cared for by the NHS. It is not acceptable that the current NHS quality initiatives should ignore this sector.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vellenoweth
mesh_terms: D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom