Residential care homes: challenge for nursing practices
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Residential care homes: challenge for nursing practices

John Turnbull Director of nursing, Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust
Diane Timblick Lecturer practitioner, Specialist services, Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust

John Turnbull and Diane Timblick analyse the professional issues vital to residential care homes

The united kingdom Central Council estimated in 1997 that there are 21,000 registered homes run by private and voluntary organisations in the UK, providing around 506,000 beds for a range of client groups.

Learning Disability Practice. 1, 2, 10-13. doi: 10.7748/ldp1998.07.1.2.10.c1412

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