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The assessment gap
- Authors:
- CLARKSON Paul, CHALLIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.7.04, 2004, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The single assessment process (SAP) is intended to overcome the difficulties with assessments of older people, avoid duplication, and promote and effective response to needs. This article examines the relevance of recent research for the debates leading up to the deadline for full implementation in April this year. The study, undertaken by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Manchester, looked at 256 older people on the value of integrating the specialist assessments of secondary health care clinicians with those of care managers. Argues that integrating assessment practice between health and social care will require more than the breaking down of professional barriers. Joint structures, providing incentives for collaboration, are just as important.
Community care, secondary health care and care management
- Editors:
- CHALLIS David, DARTON Robin, STEWART Karen
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 178p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Contains papers on: care management and community care; community care and health care for older people; findings and lessons for care management, health care and community care from the Darlington study; the Darlington service past, present and future; the Cornwall experience with assessment and rehabilitation teams in the community; standardised assessment in the community; social services departments, secondary health care and community care; cost opportunities and constraints in developing secondary health care in the community; and linking community and health care.
Policy, organisation and practice of specialist old age psychiatry in England
- Authors:
- CHALLIS David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(11), November 2002, pp.1018-1026.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim of this article is to describe and compare service arrangements in old age psychiatry across England according to three broad domains: levels of professional autonomy; degree of community orientation (delivery of and links with community services) and degree of integration between health and social care provision. The findings indicate that there is marked variation in the deployment and use of professional staff in old age psychiatry, ranging from open access to multidisciplinary assessment to services only accessible by clinician referral. Patterns of linkage with primary care are likewise variable with only half of services providing the types of support recommended by the Audit Commission. Community orientation was evident to a considerable extent in support to care homes and assessment practices. Links between health and social care appeared strongest in terms of liaison and training. There was less evidence of more formal integration through shared management of staff or for links with intensive home support for those with dementia.