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Dropping 'E's: the missing link in quality assurance for disabled people
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 44/45, Autumn 1995, pp.7-21.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Community Care reforms have revived interest in service quality. Argues that the definition of service quality is valued-led and that dominant ideologies have contributed to the continued oppression of disabled people. The design of quality assurance systems is considered and it is suggested that organisations controlled by disabled people have a central role to play in providing disablement services. Two conclusions are drawn. First, service quality cannot on its own be a sufficient condition for disabled people's emancipation. Second, 'quality' has been used as a policy substitute for the necessary condition of 'equality'.
The cost and quality of care for people with disabilities
- Authors:
- BRAND Eileen, et al
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 50p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A research report investigating the impact of contract setting introduced under community care legislation for the provision of care for people with disabilities. Examines two examples of contract setting relationships between local authorities and the voluntary sector, looking specifically at the information needs of purchasers and providers for costing the needs of disabled people.
Evaluating quality in services for disabled and older people
- Editors:
- PILLING Doria, WATSON Graham
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 229p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to raise awareness of different types of evaluation methods in use; discusses the problems associated with determining what quality is and who should set the standards; presents findings from the PASS (programme analysis of services systems) and PASSING (programme analysis of service systems implementation of normalisation goals) methods of assessment; compares PASS and PASSING with other evaluation methods; and includes service users' perspectives on service quality.
Centrally commissioned research programme
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents an overview of the Department of Health's centrally commissioned research programme and its future direction. Goes on to list projects and programmes funded from April 1991 - March 1994 under the following headings: the strategy for health; health and lifestyles; the health of children; community care; child care; mental health policy; health care for older people, disabled people and people with learning difficulties; and central initiatives aimed at securing quality in health care.
Partners in caring: the fourth annual report of the Chief Inspector Social Services Inspectorate 1994/95
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 102p.
- Place of publication:
- London