The Carers Compass has been launched by Carers Impact to help health authorities, NHS trusts and primary care groups to become responsive to their needs. The Compass reflects the work being done by the 19 Carers Impact sites across the country. The Compass points to eight key things carers need ...
This book - developed from a systematic review of evidence about the impact of the NHS internal market - asks what lessons can be learned from the internal market reforms, and how this knowledge can be used to aid policy-making in the future. It synthesises all the evidence on the ...
There are nearly 40,000 residential and nursing homes in the UK and choosing one of them, often under great speed and stress, can be a daunting experience. It is difficult to know what to look for, how to check that the standards are high, who funds what, and why there ...
This publication contains the organisational standards for nursing and residential homes produced after three years of development and trialling. It also contains a short account of the development of the standards and the process of using them in both nursing home and residential homes contexts.
This publication is a short report on a 1998 visit to Barcelona to investigate the planning and delivery of health care in Catalonia and explore the potential for mutual exchanges of staff.
This second study from the Changing Days project is a practical guide on how best to achieve the integration of adults with learning difficulties into the community. It builds on the vision set out in the first book, Changing Days, and reflects the experience of working in five sites around ...
This report summarises a meeting to evaluate the Carers Impact Project in Tameside. It reviewed the changes which have taken place during the course of the project and the impact on carers' lives, identifies what has helped and hindered progress, identifies how the work can continue, and evaluates the Carers ...
This report summarises the material produced by a workshop which was set up in response to feedback from local carers who took part in the first stage of the Carers Impact Project in Tameside. The workshop aimed to review the progress made in implementing the Carers Act and undertaking carer ...