title: For the NHS and local authorities to run nursing homes makes perfect sense, says Ruth Sander, but this is not a new idea.
abstract: In the early 1980s the predecessor to the Department of Health funded the development of three NHS nursing homes and appointed a team from Newcastle University to evaluate them.
authors.affiliation: Experimental NHS Nursing Home, Portsmouth.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sander