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Providing Services

Statutory, private, voluntary and informal providers

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Overview

Statutory provider, private provider and voluntary provider.

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Give two strengths and two weaknesses of private provision.

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What do informal carers contribute, and at what cost to themselves?

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What support is available to informal carers?

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  1. 1

    What is a statutory provider?

    Model answer

    A statutory provider is one that government is required by law to provide, funded from public money — in Northern Ireland the Health and Social Care Trusts, which deliver hospital, community health and social work services.

  2. 2

    What is a private provider?

    Model answer

    A private provider is a business delivering care to make a profit, such as an independent nursing home, a domiciliary care agency or a private clinic, paid for either by the service user or by a Trust that has commissioned the place.

  3. 3

    What is a voluntary provider?

    Model answer

    A voluntary provider is a non-profit organisation, usually a registered charity, delivering services because of its aims rather than for profit — Age NI, Barnardo's, Mencap, Marie Curie and the Northern Ireland Hospice are examples.

  4. 4

    What is an informal carer?

    Model answer

    An informal carer is a family member, friend or neighbour who provides unpaid care to somebody who could not manage without it, and informal carers deliver by far the largest share of care given in the community.

  5. 5

    What is meant by the independent sector?

    Model answer

    The independent sector is the private and voluntary providers taken together — everything outside the statutory services — and a great deal of residential, nursing and domiciliary care is delivered by it under contract to Trusts.

  6. 6

    Give two strengths of statutory provision.

    Model answer

    Statutory provision is available to everyone who meets the criteria regardless of ability to pay, and it is accountable through government, inspected by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority and subject to national standards.

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