community care

British  

noun

1. help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions

2. the policy of transferring responsibility for people in need from large, often isolated, state institutions to their relatives and local welfare agencies

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Example Sentences

Without suitable community care in place, these patients are forced to stay in hospital.

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Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech and language therapy and disability support, the BBC has found.

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It added that it has undertaken two pieces of work to tackle patient flow, particularly in caring for frail, elderly patients, and refocus on community care but that "this will take time to impact and is not helped by the very challenging financial position".

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It found significant disparities in community care and a lack of state-funded residential facilities for under-18s.

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The BBC found disparities in community care, gaps in strategy and a shortage of beds for those in crisis.

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