This report describes aspects of the work of the Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes and looks particularly at the roles of the European Economic Community, the Department of the Environment and the Crossroads Housing and Supporting Care Project. The D.O.E. assisted in the development of guidelines for local authority architects on ...
This report is a summary of the final conferences on the care of elderly people based on a study of Danish experience in the field. The subjects for discussion were housing, the need for flexibility in care and the identification of good practices. Four syndicate groups discussed specific topics, keeping ...
The closure or change of use of all or part of a hospital or health facility used to be relatively rare and straight forward. Relatively little has been written about ways in which health service changes have been carried through effectively and to the satisfaction of the different parties concerned. ...
This seminar had been arranged with a view to discussing the importance of taking capital costs into account in a specialty budgeting system, and if their inclusion was thought necessary, to consider how such costs should be represented. This topic appeared to have been given little consideration previously and therefore ...
This is an account of two workshops held to discuss factors which should be considered when briefing the design team on the planning of a major new health care facility. Current capital planning methods in the NHS and the formal Capricode procedure tend to concentrate on the `hard' objectives which ...
This study day provided an opportunity for social workers to discuss some of the many variations in adoption practices, policies and procedures. Discussion centred on the main themes of the role of the local authority as parent; authorities assuming parental rights with parents agreements; agency records and child history, and ...