The principal objective of this investigation is to produce specific recommendations about the distribution of administrative resources to family health services authorities (FHSAs). There are two basic aims to the report: to examine actual variations in FHSA expenditure and relate those to characteristics of FHSAs and their areas where there ...
This report concerns the implementation of assessment and care management within 11 local authority social services departments in England in 1990 and 1991. Assessment and care management are critical elements of the current programme to reform the delivery of services for people with disabilities which was established in the white ...
This conference was planned as an event for, and facilitated by, black people. This was to enable participants to feel at ease and to express their feelings openly without being constrained by the presence of white people. It was aimed specifically at service users as well as service providers in ...
The second edition of 'The Nation's Health' is an extensively revised and updated assessment of trends in health status and public health policy and practice over the last decade. Its wide-ranging scientific analysis forms the basis for developing 17 health priorities and a clearly defined strategy for improving health over ...
This document reports an experiment in consultation between users and informal carers and presents an alternative model for consideration by local and health authorities, and by users and carers themselves.
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 ...
This item provides information and advice for members of steering groups responsible for implementing organisational audit. From joining the programme to assessing the surveyors' recommendations, this booklet clarifies the whole process and explains how it's done.
The report is the first of three staged reports to be issued in connection with this project. It is a consultative document intended to open debate on the development of a core assessment procedure for community care.