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No specialists needed?
- Author:
- RICHARDSON Malcolm
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.3.94, 1994, p.67.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Raises concern that privately run homes for people with learning disabilities living in the community sometimes neglect nursing interventions and skills.
Quality of life: perspectives and policies
- Editors:
- BALDWIN Sally, GODFREY Christine, PROPPER Carol
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 268p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Covers conceptual frameworks of quality of life, methodology - including Quality Adjusted Life Years -, empirical perspectives with various client groups, and policy issues.
The cost and quality of community residential care: an evaluation of the services for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- RAYNES Norma V., et al
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 108p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Deals with ways of measuring cost and quality in residential care homes in the community in all sectors providing such services. Explores links between cost and quality and addresses issues such as the impact of size, staffing ratios, training and staff morale on the quality of service delivery, focusing in particular on accommodation for people with learning difficulties.
Speaking up, speaking out - involving users in day services
- Author:
- ROSS Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 1 1994, 1994, pp.1-9.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
A reduction in the role of local government as the primary provider of health and social services, including community care throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s has been matched by increasing support for the informal, voluntary and private sectors. The shift of responsibility from public to private has been promoted through a movement towards a mixed economy of care, which advocates increased quality and choice for users, as defined by users. The author's study looks at how three user groups - people with physical disabilities, people with mental health problems, and people with learning difficulties are being encouraged to have a voice in service planning and delivery of services across three local authority areas in the West Midlands.