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Progress through partnership
- Editor:
- LEVAI Katalin
- Publisher:
- The Social Innovation Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 153p.
- Place of publication:
- Budapest
Report of a joint project between the National Institute for Social Work and organisations in Hungary representing social welfare services, research, and training and education. The work involved looking at reforming health and welfare services in the context the political changes taking place in Hungary. The project went forward in several phases: inception; research; training; and dissemination. Describes the project; and looks at the development of services for older people in Hungary.
Messages from the front line: joint health and social care rehabilitation
- Author:
- TRAPPES-LOMAX Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 7(4), August 1999, pp.33-37.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article reports key messages for policy makers, drawn from a workshop held for local health and social care staff with responsibilities for running or setting up short-term residential rehabilitation for elderly and disabled people. The aim was to learn from each other's experience and to provide a nuts-and-bolts framework for the development of local joint investment plans.
Modernising home care at Dudley: the challenge of implementing a vision which embraces computers and people
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 6(3), July 1999, pp.19-25.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
This article, the first of a three part series on the partnership project that Dudley Direct Care Services launches in 1996, looks at the background to the project and the models of working in the Home Care service.
United, in sickness and in health?
- Authors:
- McCURRY Patrick, WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.1.99, 1999, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As a flu bug throws winter pressures plans in to chaos, and elderly and vulnerable patients in accident and emergency departments grow longer, reports on how MPs are recommending tearing down divisions between health and social services.
Dementia care: developing partnerships in practice
- Editors:
- ADAMS Trevor, CLARKE Charlotte L.
- Publisher:
- Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 396p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Promotes dementia care as a service emphasising the individuality of people with dementia, and the importance of their continuing relationships with their family carers. Explores the implications for professional practice of valuing and protecting individuals who have dementia and the family care giving relationship. Aims to reflect and stimulate research into practice, and discusses issues which need to be acknowledged by practitioners in order to provide informed and enlightened care.
Winter planning conference: conference proceedings; 12th July 1999, Wembley Conference Centre
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Millennium Executive Team
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents key messages from the recent conference on planning for winter 1999/2000 and the Millennium holiday period.
Meeting the challenge: improving management information for the effective commissioning of social care services for older people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying results of a study carried out by the SSI social care group.
Winter planning conference: 12 July 1999
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying the report of a joint health and social services conference on winter planning.
Coordinating health, excluded care and community support services: reforming aged care in Australia
- Author:
- FINE Michael D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 11(1), 1999, pp.67-90.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Under pressure to maximize the cost-effectiveness of programs, efforts to improve coordination have become increasingly central to the development of the broader health and welfare service delivery system in Australia in the past few years. This article reviews recent experience in two related fields: (1) the coordination of different community care services for older people with disabilities, funded by the Home and Community Care program; and (2) the attempt to enhance links between community and residential care services, hospitals, and other health care providers.
Responding to the winter crisis
- Author:
- McNALLY David
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 1999, p.12.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Asks whether joint rapid assessment schemes to keep people out of hospital are enough to prevent the admissions crisis that hospitals face each winter.