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Fully equipped: equipment for older or disabled people
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 102p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
More than four million disabled people use equipment services, which can be gateways to independence and improved quality of life for both users and carers. This report looks at how the service is operating within the NHS. It introduces the service and goes on to focus on these specific areas: orthotic services; prosthetic services; wheelchair and seating services; community equipment services; and audiology services. Concludes with recommendations for the future.
Joining up health and social care: improving value for money across the interface
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Integrated working across health and social care could offer potential, both in efficiency savings and improving outcomes for people. This briefing paper focuses on how integrated working could improve outcomes older people with one or more long term condition, It sets out the potential areas for local action, questions commissioners might ask themselves and the evidence that might help with the answers; and potential indicators for identifying areas for improvement and for tracking progress and what the data suggests in these key areas. The second part of the briefing looks at how partnerships can use national published data. Five areas highlighted and discussed throughout the report: Emergency admissions, emergency bed days, residential and nursing home admissions, people discharged from hospital to residential and nursing care, and people dying at homes.
The coming of age: improving care services for older people
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 90p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at how services for older people can be improved via closer collaboration between the NHS and social services and between independent sector service providers and social services. Case studies illustrate how agencies can work together more effectively and provide a better mix of services for older people that emphasises prevention and rehabilitation. Aimed at purchasers, providers, managers, chief executives, social services directors, and policy makers.