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Effective consumers and active citizens: strategies for users' influence on service and beyond
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, SHARDLOW Polly
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 14(1), 1996, pp.33-38.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Draws on research undertaken as part of the ESRC Local Governance Programme investigating the objectives and strategies of mental health service users' and disabled people's groups. It distinguishes between strategies based on 'consumerism' and those based on 'citizenship' and provides examples of practical achievements by, as well as barriers to the influence of, service user activists.
Citizens in detention: the role of the Mental Health Act commission in protecting the rights of detained patients
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Studies, 22(3), Autumn 1996, pp.28-46.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
In this article the author is concerned with questions of rights and citizenship as they apply to people who have been placed in a situation where their freedom to participate within society has been temporarily curtailed by being compulsorily detained within a psychiatric hospital. Looks at the 1983 Mental Health Act and the impact it has on detained patient.
Users, officials and citizens in health and social care
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Policy Making, 22(4), March 1996, pp.9-17.
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
Looks at the empowerment of public service users from the point of view of groups of disabled people and people with mental health problems, and the 'officials' (purchasers and providers of health and social care services and politicians) with whom they come into contact. This article focuses on the way in which both user groups and officials view the notion of citizenship and its relationship to empowerment.