community care

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

Example Sentences

A greater proportion of new NHS funding is now going to primary and community care.

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Under a 10-year plan, published last month, health officials said the NHS in England needed to undergo a radical shift, away from hospitals to community care, and away from treating sickness to preventing it in the first place.

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Along with orange, the other categories taking amber's place will be yellow, for conditions which require further clinical assessment to determine the best course of action, and green, for conditions such as blocked catheters which may need community care or planned transport to urgent services.

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A new workforce plan for the health service is expected to be announced later this year which will set targets to recruit new staff to work in community care.

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That figure included hospital care, primary and community care, hospice, medicines and other care costs that someone choosing an assisted death would not need.

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