Choosing a care home on discharge from hospital: guidance

Footnotes

1 From a publication in the Annals of Internal Medicinn on the Hazards of hospitalisation of the elderly

2 From a publication in Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses on Reducing Functional Decline in Hospitalized Elderly

4 Section 12A was inserted by section 55 of the 1990 Act. This amendment comes into force on 1 April 1993

5 The relevant amendments to Part Il of the 1968 Act are as follows. Section 12 was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 10(5); section 13B was inserted by section 56 of the 1990 Act; section 13A was also inserted by section 56 of the 1990 Act; and this amendment comes into force on 1 April 1993

6 Sl 1992/2977

7 Section 22(2) of the National Assistance Act 1948 was amended by section 44(3) of the 1990 Act, and applied in respect of accommodation provided in Scotland under the 1968 Act by section 87(3) of that Act

8 The relevant amendments to section 26 of the 1948 Act are as follows. Subsection (2) was amended by section 42(3), and subsection (3) by section 42(4), of the 1990 Act and these amendments come into force on 1 April 1993. Subsection (4) was amended by the Schedule to the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 and section 20(1)(b) of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudication's Act 1983 (c.41). Section 26(2) to (4) is applied for Scotland by section 87(3) and (4) of the 1968 Act

9 As respects Scotland, section 42 of the 1948 Act was amended by the Law Reform (Parent and Child)

(Scotland) Act 1986, Schedule 1, paragraph 5 and is applied by section 87(3) of the 1968 Act