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Showing 1 to 20 of 269 for “"Social care"”.
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From Origins to Output: Understanding Routinely Collected Social Care Data Processes and Management with Consideration to Health and Social Care Integration
<b>Background</b>: This thesis explores routine social care data collection and management processes resulting from the Scottish Government’s strategic vision for 2020 and the formal implementation of health and social care integration. Key to this strategy is the initiative to use routinely …
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Implementation of health and social care standards in health and social care services: development and feasibility testing of an implementation support tool
Introduction Health and social care standards are complex quality improvement interventions. Standards are typically made up of evidence-based statements that describe safe, high-quality, person-centred care as an outcome or process of care delivery. They involve multiple stakeholders from multiple …
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User involvement and improving quality of health and social care.
… have been to: i) extend knowledge of the social interactions which affect health and social care delivery; and ii) improve the quality of health and social care through an increased understanding of patients’/clients’ needs and factors which influence professionals’ practice. The main …
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Competing constructions of children's participation in social care : analysing text and talk
… constructs children as subjects within social welfare formations. It is the result of a qualitative and interpretive research project using narrative and discourse analysis as key methodologies. The research is theoretically framed within the social constructionist, post-structuralist, …
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An exploration of neighbourhood team members experiences of the transition from traditional health and social care teams to integrated care systems, within a defined health and social care economy
… policies focused on transforming health and social care from its traditional forms into integrated care systems. Previous research has demonstrated that people are essential in the transformation process which is often complex and requires structural, practical, and cultural change. Despite …
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Integration of health and social care: a case study of a London borough
… England to combine the NHS with local authority social care services to enhance health and wellbeing. However, research into integrated care in mental health provision remains scarce. Aim: This qualitative case study aims to explore and examine the processes implemented for facilitating …
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Exploring the impact of pre-proceedings meetings in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust
… meetings in one of Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Trusts. The aim of this study was to develop an understanding of the broad range of factors underpinning social work activity in the pre-proceedings forum, the biographical contexts within which families are engaged in pre-proceedings …
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The importance of being efficacious: English health and social care partnerships and service user outcomes
The need for health and social care agencies and their professionals to work in partnership is a central component of contemporary English health and social care policy. Partnership is predicated on the notion that this way of working improves services and outcomes for service users. However, as …
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Does professional identity impact on the credibility of leaders of integrated health and social care services?
… major changes in the provision of health and social care. The drive towards integration continues with the recent publication of The Health Care Bill (2021). This research has been conducted in an integrated children and young people service but is relevant to any integrated health and social …
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The participation of disabled children, young people and their parents in health and social care decisions
… This includes decisions about their health and social care and collective or public decisions about the way in which services are designed, delivered and evaluated. Indeed this has become a policy priority across the UK (Franklin and Sloper, 2009). The participation of disabled children and …
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Developing dialogic learning in children's health and social care teams through the use of person centered thinking
This action research study reports on the development of a process for dialogic learning underpinned by Person Centred Thinking and the use of Person Centred Planning Tools (PCPTs). This learning occurred in three separate but associated teams delivering family support services to children and …
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Exploring illness and social care management: comparing consumer perspectives of suffering and the challenges faced by service providers
… women coped and how service providers, including carers, met their needs. The author used participant observation in his role as Occupational Therapist (and son) to gain access to this sample. He asked them to keep written diaries about their day-to-day experiences of living with the illness. …
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Life with HIV in a suburban community: an exploration of experiences pertaining to health and social care service access
… Ontario, Canada community access health and social care services. Using hermeneutic phenomenology associated with Martin Heidegger, in-depth interviews with PLWH were conducted to understand their experience of accessing care. Thirteen co-participants were interviewed and six metathemes were …
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Exploring the role of technology-enabled dementia education and support for health and social care practitioners in rural Scotland
… education and training for the health and social care workforce is necessary to ensure that practitioners have the confidence and competence to provide quality care for people living with dementia and their families. The need for dementia education may be greater among rural health and …
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The Influence of the Operating Environment on Voluntary Collaboration Between Health, Social Care, and Housing: An Instrumental Case Study
… 2015a; Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales, 2018).<br/><br/>The aim of this study was to explore and gain an understanding of how factors in the operating environment act to encourage or discourage voluntary collaboration in practice, between health, social care, and …
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A theory of fair treatment of health and social care students during fitness to practise proceedings: a constructivist grounded theory.
… were from a variety of professional health and social care backgrounds. All participants had prior involvement with various aspects of the student fitness to practise processes. The interviews were digitally recorded and were transcribed verbatim. The transcripts were uploaded into NVivo and …
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An action research evaluation to understand and inform the role of the Integrated Care Pharmacist across health and social care
… and inform the new role of an Integrated Care (IC) Pharmacist, founded to work as part of the health and social multidisciplinary team (MDT) within the IC program for East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG). Aim The aim of the study was to understand and …
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Development and validation of a reflective tool to measure compassionate care for older people in health and social care settings
… validate a novel tool to measure compassionate care for older people in health and social care settings.<br/><br/><b>Method:</b> This project utilised a mixed-methods study design, consisting of three phases: 1) a Group Concept Mapping method to define the concept of compassionate care from the …
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An exploratory study of the views of stakeholders about the role of regulation in social care service provision in Scotland.
Performance management of social work and social care services, complemented by effective regulation, is viewed as key to improving delivery and providing public assurance about care quality, and the value of listening to stakeholders as contributors to the knowledge base has long been recognised. …
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Investigating the experience of well-being in the context of low paid service work in the hospitality and social care sectors
… of low paid workers in the hospitality and social care sectors. The study explores how the nature of jobs in these sectors impacts the well-being of employees; the spillover processes that occur between work and home life; and, how the use of HRM practices shape well-being. By conducting …
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