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Priorities in dementia services: the interaction of purchasers and providers
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(8), August 2000, pp.746-750.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The author argues that health and social care services in the UK are planned and purchased in ways that increase the inequalities in services for older people. Looks at the current inequalities in service provision, including geographical inequalities, and examines the provision of mental health services for older people by health authorities and trusts.
With respect to old age
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 13.3.99, 1999, pp.681-682.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Presents a critical analysis of the findings of the 'Royal Commission on the Funding of Long Term Care'.
The future of Britain's high security hospitals
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 3.5.97, 1997, pp.1292-1293.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Looks at the future of high security hospitals now that most judges impose a restriction order are cared for in regional secure units, general NHS psychiatric inpatient acute units, and independent sector hospitals. Asks whether these troubled hospitals have a role in the future of forensic mental health care and whether they can become clinically excellent.
Security cheques
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 9.1.97, 1997, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the stark statistics about services for mentally disordered offenders which highlight the pressures on inner London compared with outer London and the rest of the country.
The past and future of special hospitals
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 5(5), December 1996, pp.475-482.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes how the proposals for the new commissioning board for maximum security care, the creation of three separate Special Health Authorities (SHAs) to manage the hospitals, and the mechanisms for transferring resources and choice to local district health authorities could provide a framework for revitalising high security services.
Could do better
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 18.11.93, 1993, pp.9-10.
Offers an overview of current mental health service provision.
Sweet freedom
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 29.10.92, 1992, pp.15-16.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Physical restraint in wards and homes for elderly people may be on the wane, but liberty is often restricted more subtly.
Quality assurance in residential care
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 7(10), October 1992, pp.695-697.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Identifies the characteristics of institutions where scandals arise; "human care" services could learn from commercial service businesses: outlines the key features designed to achieve success in situations where the provider of services may be quite remote from the centre.
After the asylums: community care for people with mental illness
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 256p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Traces the history of the care of people with a mental illness, and provides a critical appraisal of the decline of the asylum and the policy of community care. Looks at the provision of a comprehensive service, and makes suggestions for turning the principles of community care into practice.
Serious gaps in response to Griffiths
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 22.7.89, 1989, pp.217-218.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
The Government's initial response to the Griffiths Report shows a lack of central direction and of mechanisms to ensure coordinated planning of community care, problems which will need to be addressed in the forthcoming White Paper.