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 ...
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. ...
This publication gives the participants, programme and notes for this event. It looks at four different scenarios for London in 2010, and the effects on health care of each.
These information sheets will be of use to health service staff of community health councils who wish to find out about non-survey methods of obtaining users' views. The purpose of these sheets is: to give some useful reading references for this field; to give some details of some of the ...
This publication consists of the agenda and supporting material produced for this seminar. The items discussed included: good and bad news on Living Options and support services; strengths, weaknesses and gaps in local services; community support systems; implementation challenges; and key provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act.
The Single European Market has nearly arrived when people will experience freedom of movement of goods, services and people between the Member States of the European Community. For the health service, this has two main concerns. First, the possible increase in the migration of unskilled labour will effect the health ...
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. ...
The thesis of this paper is that an analysis of the GP budget holding proposal (in 'Working for Patients'), in the light of the US HMO movement and the managed care industry it has spawned, will provide valuable insight into how the British innovation might function, or not. The paper ...
This paper marks ten years since the launch of the King's Fund 'An Ordinary Life' initiative and was delivered to the 'Better Lives' seminar sponsored by Community Care and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, 27 April 1990. While acknowledging the changes that have taken place in services for people with ...