The mixed economy of care has developed over the last 20 years, each sector working together to improve care for individuals across the UK. This essay looks in more detail at the reasons why increased numbers in these sectors have occurred, and what has caused them. Discussing the impact they have had on service users in the community and how they have supported the NHS provision.
A mixed economy of care is the purveying of care services from a wide range of service providers. What this means in the UK is services are sourced from the independent and voluntary sectors to support those provided by the NHS. These organisations working together provide care services within the community, offering wider choices to the individual (The King’s
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Known as the public or statutory sector whereby services are provided through the government, funded mainly by taxes and national insurance contributions; the private sector, owned by individuals or companies, normally run for profit and charging for their service; the voluntary (nonprofit) sector formed by charities who are supported mainly through donations, grants and lottery funding; the informal sector, made up of friends and family. With the reforms in community health care this led to an explosion in the voluntary sector. This has continued in an upward trend as the government has encouraged growth within the private and public sectors also (Channel Four Learning, …show more content…
The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 provided the legislation to enable some of Griffiths suggestions to be implemented in 1993 (Powell,