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Modernising the workhorse: getting the best from service users
- Author:
- SNOW Rose
- Journal article citation:
- MCC Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, 10(4), August 2002, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
It is argued that discriminatory attitudes to (ex) service users may threaten modernisation as they limit and shrink the workhorse and prevent committed workers form succeeding. This article summarises the report of the first National Conference of Survivor Workers which gives senior managers the knowledge needed to increase the size and capability of the workhorse.
A qualitative study of the perceptions of individuals with disabilities concerning health and rehabilitation professionals
- Author:
- CRISP Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.355-367.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This Australian study examines the perceptions of persons with disabilities concerning their interaction with health and rehabilitation professionals.
A new era for community care: what people want from health, housing and social care services
- Authors:
- FARRELL Christine, ROBINSON Janice, FLETCHER Peter
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 49p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report providing an insight into the experiences of older and disabled people and their carers who use health, housing and social care services, and of front line staff providing treatment, care and support. Concludes that the indicators are that these services are often failing to provide adequate support to vulnerable people living in the community.
Visual handicap: the consumer and the professional
- Author:
- DUDLEY Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 3(1), 1996, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Gives a personal insight into the problems facing those with a visual handicap and other disabilities when using health and social services. Argues that people with disabilities should play a greater role in the training of professional staff working within health and social services and should also be given the opportunity to work within these services themselves.
A coherent policy for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities: recommendation no. R(92)6 adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 9 April 1992 ...; a model rehabilitation programme for national authorities
- Author:
- COUNCIL OF EUROPE
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Recommendations which take into account the training of non-health staff, technical aids, sporting activities and practical measures for the employment of people with physical or learning disabilities.