The Commodity of Care: Politics and Poor Nursing CareThe aim of the book is to analyse why poor nursing care is still occurring within care homes and hospitals in the UK, the USA, and Australia, despite numerous recommendations over more than 30 years. It became evident through the course of research that provision of care depended on the dominant political ethos, sometimes termed free market ideology or neoliberalism – terms describing an economic theory which claims the market should be the sole determinant of people’s lifestyle choices, and that the market should be free from government interference, since it is self-regulating. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical perspective | 7 |
Care homes within the UK USA and Australia | 24 |
Hospitals | 35 |
Attitudes to care | 42 |
Intellectualisation of care | 50 |
Poor care and the Care Quality Commission | 58 |
Regulation of healthcare assistants | 67 |
Ombudsman | 73 |
Human rights and discrimination | 83 |
The exploitation of overseas nurses | 90 |
References | 96 |