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HAs beens?
- Author:
- HIGGINS Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 28.1.99, 1999, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The future for health authorities is unclear as primary care groups take on part of their role. Examines whether they should be changed or replaced, and looks at the options.
HAZs warning
- Author:
- HIGGINS Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 16.4.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Discusses health action zones and argues that the lessons of earlier area-based approaches to health and social welfare should be heeded if health action zones are to avoid past pitfalls.
Reformed characters
- Author:
- HIGGINS Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 17.2.94, 1994, p.33.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The NHS Reforms have led to a change process characterised by a division of roles between doers and the done-to. Briefly considers what distinguishes these two roles in the change process.
User participation in services for people with learning disabilities: conference proceedings
- Author:
- HIGGINS Joan
- Publisher:
- University of Southampton. Institute for Health Policy Studies
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Southampton
Includes papers on: the Southampton action on quality project; pathway to a consumer feedback mechanism - project report; the patient's charter and people with learning disabilities; quality action groups; self and citizen advocacy; and consumer involvement and the All Wales strategy.
Defining community care : realities and myths
- Author:
- HIGGINS Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 23(1), May 1988, pp.3-16.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Argues that community care as a concept is both unhelpful and redundant : community care has aspects of residential care and vice versa.
No can do
- Authors:
- BOSMA Tineke, HIGGINS Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 21.2.02, 2002, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Primary care trusts are chronically short of staff. The authors warn that they must take action on workforce planning if they are to succeed.
A life of our own: young carers; an evaluation of three RHA funded projects in Merseyside
- Authors:
- MAHON Ann, HIGGINS Joan
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Health Services Management Unit
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Appendices to the main report.
A life of our own: young carers; an evaluation of three RHA funded projects in Merseyside; research project
- Authors:
- MAHON Ann, HIGGINS Joan
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Health Services Management Unit
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 106p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Report from 3 projects established to provide care and support for young carers. The study examines who the young carers are, what caring involves and how well the projects have supported young people and their carers.
Total quality
- Authors:
- SPACKMAN Angela, HIGGINS Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 3.10.91, 1991, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes the introduction of a total quality management strategy for services for people with learning disabilities in a mental handicap services unit.
Seed funding for health promotion: sowing sustainability or skepticism?
- Authors:
- HIGGINS Joan Wharf, NAYOR Patti-Jean, DAY Meghan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Development Journal, 43(2), April 2008, pp.210-221.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Health promotion activities are enjoying renewed attention from governments under the rubric of chronic disease prevention, yet often with similar and inadequate resources. Seed-funding opportunities are popular means for governments to distribute monies and groom communities to embed the funded activities into local ecology. The success of seed funding in nurturing community capacity and engendering program sustainability is controversial. This article discusses a recent seed-funding experience in the Canadian province of British Columbia.