This is the second edition of this publication which was published for the first time in 1994. This edition is structured in four parts. The first is a calendar of events in London's health care during 1994, followed by a commentary by the editor. The third section presents the relevant ...
This briefing paper aims to contribute some background analysis and data to inform a debate in the House of Commons on 28 April 1994 about London's health care system. It begins with comparative considerations; whether high needs and poor community based care lead to greater pressure on hospitals; and key ...
This publication, building on the Ordinary Life initiative, describes a project undertaken with 2 community services - one for adults and one for children. A P.A.S.S. evaluation of each service yielded detailed information on what life was really like for service users and pinpointed priority areas for further training and ...
This paper gives a framework for thinking about new sorts of training needs for community services in the field of mental health. It describes what a good community service should look like; it looks at what people need to learn about if they are to provide effective help to people ...
This report provides an account of how New South Wales and Victoria have gone about establishing large-scale strategies for deinstitutionalisation of people with learning difficulties and the governmental leadership this has required. The analysis of the Australian experience draws attention to the magnitude of the social changes implied by these ...
The philosophy of 'an ordinary life' has been the basis of a wide range of local initiatives, and increasingly influences large-scale changes in community care. This book includes contributions from seventeen people who as users, innovators and evaluators have been involved centrally in these developments. They review current practice in ...
This report analyses the health and social support services presently available to people with physical disabilities in Britain within the wider framework of national, social and community care policy. It attempts to piece together a comprehensive picture of current provision from a wide variety of sources and stresses the need ...
The papers that comprise this collection are the proceedings of a workshop organised by the Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, in May 1986. The workshop aimed to explore issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap. The papers are organised and presented ...
In the current financial climate and with an inheritance of large hospitals situated mainly outside London, the development of local services presents a major challenge to health and local authorities. This paper has been prepared in five sections: (1) National policy developments in learning difficulties in the 1980s; (2) Information ...
This account of recent developments in community based services for mentally handicapped people in this country derives from a study of available literature, focussing particularly on that published between 1975-1981. The main part of the report describes the kind of schemes and projects that have been developed to meet the ...