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Créateur:: Whittaker, Andrea, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Kershaw, Joyce, and Gardner, Simon
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This evaluation looked at one corner of one authority's services for people with learning difficulties. North West Thames Regional Health Authority funded People First to do this evaluation in order to ask people's views about what services they were getting, what they wanted, and what was important to them. It ...

Créateur:: Towell, David, King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Beardshaw, Virginia
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This publication is intended for senior managers and members of health and local authorities who are grappling with the challenges posed by the NHS and community care reforms to services for people with learning disabilities. Its subject is the ways in which public authorities can stimulate large scale change in ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Taylor, Jean, and Taylor, David
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: Against the background of profound change now affecting the British health and social care system this report examines economic aspects of the support of people (particularly adults) with severe learning difficulties in England, and their implications for future service development. It briefly outlines ideas and data relevant to: the evolution ...

Créateur:: Hubert, Jane and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This book describes the experiences of twenty families who have, living at home, a teenager or young adult with severe learning difficulties who has been classified by professionals as 'severely' or 'profoundly' mentally handicapped, and who also has 'serious behavioural problems'. It documents the lives of these families, and the ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The two conferences described in this report aimed to go beyond the 'getting to know about self-advocacy' stage and aimed to look at groups already in operation, to see how they are progressing. The support required to help groups run well was also looked at. The broad questions discussed at ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This document is the latest in the `An Ordinary Life' series and follows on from `Facing the Challenge' and `Evaluating the Challenges', giving practical examples of services around the country for people with challenging behaviour. As well as describing the services it looks at key issues of : management and ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The main aims of the conferences described in this book were to enable participants to learn about supported employment initiatives for people with severe learning difficulties and to exchange information with one another. There were opportunities to meet new people with similar concerns and to develop networks for continuing contact. ...

Créateur:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: Government policy increasingly emphasises the importance of community care services for people with learning difficulties and other long term disabilities, although when people have substantial disabilities, it is often a major challenge to design and run such services. Service evaluation can help to meet this challenge by asking key questions. ...

Créateur:: Consumer Feedback Resource (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: These information sheets will be of use to health service staff or community health councils who wish to find out the views of users with learning difficulties. The purpose of these sheets is: 1)to give useful reading references for this field; 2) to give details of some current major projects; ...

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