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Joint inspection of services for older people in Wiltshire: October 2005
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of services for older people in Medway: November 2005
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of older people's services in Dorset: October 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTIONl, AUDIT COMMISSION, COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of services for older people in Greenwich: October 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of older people's services in Redcar and Cleveland: August 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of services for older people in Leicester: June 2005
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION, AUDIT COMMISSION, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Joint inspection of older people's services in Buckinghamshire: June 2005
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTHCARE AUDIT AND INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social services and the single assessment process: early warning signs?
- Author:
- GLASBY Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 18(2), May 2004, pp.129-139.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Following the publication of policy documents such as the NHS Plan and the National Service Framework for Older People, health and social care agencies in the UK have been charged with devising and implementing a Single Assessment Process by April 2004. Although service users and carers are often frustrated at having to give the same information to many different professionals, this article cites research which raises significant doubts about the present capacity of social services departments to deliver on this government initiative. Based on telephone interviews with 25 local authorities, this paper describes the findings of research into the use of dependency measures in residential and nursing care. Although this research was conducted prior to the introduction of the Single Assessment Process, the study suggests that some local agencies may lack the expertise and skills to develop effective assessment tools/scales and that considerable Developmental work may be required to prepare
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- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.02, 2002, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Everyone agrees that home care with support is preferable to institutionalised care, but outlooks diverge among health and social care professionals once the front door has been opened and the client crosses the threshold.
Guidance on free nursing care in nursing homes
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This circular advises on: the NHS' responsibilities for arranging care by a registered nurse for some people in nursing homes from 1 October 2001; the arrangements for transferring responsibility from councils to the NHS from 1 April 2003 for the care by a registered nurse of nursing home residents; and the arrangements for the care by a registered nurse of nursing home residents with preserved rights to higher rates of income support, whose residential care management and nursing care will be transferred to councils from 8 April 2002 and whose nursing care will become an NHS responsibility from 1 April 2003.