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 ...
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 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 ...
The Government's eagerly awaited White Paper on health aroused no great passions when it was launched at the end of 1997. Unlike its predecessor, the 1989 Conservative White Paper "Working for Patients", Labour's "The new NHS" has prompted no battle of words or major health debate. Yet in this, warn ...
These comments on the Green Paper on public health, 'Our Healthier Nation', reflect the views of a group of individuals from a wide range of local and national agencies with a role to play in implementing the national public health strategy. These views were expressed during three seminars jointly organised ...
This report aims to describe the experience and adequacy of budgetary and risk management arrangements of all first wave Total Purchasing Pilots (TPPs) in 1996/97. The results of a postal questionnaire sent to every TPP manager were analysed. The authors conclude that TPPs have taken seriously the management of expenditure ...
This working paper is about engaging with older people around the development of community services. It sets out to do three things: make a case for engaging with older people to find out about their lives and the support they may require as they become ill or frail and to ...